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E-Books and E-Readers in the Libraries

Created for those involved in electronic books (e-books) and electronic book readers (e-readers) in CUNY libraries, this group serves as a digital meeting space to discuss the work being done on the individual campuses and to share our findings & experiences.

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Proposal to install spyware in university libraries

  • Posted by Beth Evans on November 17, 2020 at 1:47 pm

    I saw this on the Library Link of the Day.

    Proposal to install spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights shocks academics

    From the story:

    The speaker, Corey Roach, a security officer at the University of Utah, described a plug-in that could collect “biometric data, which can be things like how quick did they type, how do they move their mouse,” in order to distinguish and identify individual users, who are otherwise anonymized by university proxy servers.

    ….To incentivize libraries to install the software, Roach suggested offering them discounts on publisher databases in exchange.

    Not a good thing.

    Beth

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