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

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