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Speaking at UWM on May 4, 2010
Posted on April 28th, 2010 No commentsIn commemoration of the American Library Association’s inaugural Choose Privacy Week celebration, I will be joining a panel discussion hosted bt the UWM School of Information Studies and UWM Libraries on:
Emerging Privacy and Ethical Challenges for Libraries in the 2.0 Era
Tuesday, May 4, 20103:00pm – 4:30pm
Golda Meir Library, West Wing, 4th Floor Conference CenterUniversity of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeFree and open to the public
From May 2 through May 8, 2010, libraries across the nation will celebrate Choose Privacy Week (http://www.privacyrevolution.org) for the first time. This American Library Association campaign invites library professionals, users, and friends into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The UWM School of Information Studies and UWM Libraries have joined together to provide a venue for local librarians, information professionals, and patrons to discuss the emerging privacy and ethical challenges for libraries in the new “2.0” era.
Topics to be discussed include:
- What innovative online tools and services are libraries bringing to users, and what are the potential impacts on patron privacy?- Are there privacy considerations for providing or controlling access to digital collections?- How do current laws & policies protect patron privacy, and are any changes coming?- What are the broader ethical responsibilities for librarians and information professions in the libraries of the future?
Featured panelists:- Liza Barry-Kessler : privacy lawyer and co-author Privacy in the 21st Century: Issues for Public, School, and Academic Libraries- Peter Lor : visiting professor, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee, Past Secretary General,International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
The panel discussion is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Michael Zimmer, UWM School of Information Studies, zimmerm@uwm.edu . -
Blissdom Conference with FTC Update
Posted on February 6th, 2010 No commentsI was on a great panel yesterday with Susan Getgood from Blog With Integrity and Kristen Berman from Intuit, here at the Blissdom 2010 Conference.
One of the difficult questions that came up is around the FTC Advertising Guides. As many of you know, Blog With Integrity did a Webinar in November with Mary Engle of the FTC.
In that session, Ms. Engle indicated that bloggers need to put disclosures of any material relationships in the top of a blog post, NOT at the bottom.
Confusingly, one of her colleagues, Richard Cleland, did a different webinar in which he said that that it was fine to put disclosures at the bottom of a post.
Happily, here in the Blissdom Conference audience, we had a 3rd member of the FTC Advertising Practices team, Stacey Ferguson. Stacey helpfully clarified — and promised she’d try to make sure that everyone on the team communicates the same message — the following:
The FTC prefers disclosures to be at the top of the post, but that is NOT a requirement of the Guides.
Let me say that again:
You do not HAVE to put disclosures at the top of the post.
Disclosures still need to be within each applicable post. Blanket disclosures are not good enough. BUT. There is more flexibility in where and how that looks than had been previously communicated.
Remember, the standard is that the disclosure must be “clear and conspicuous.” If you’ve been paid or received goods or services for free, you need to disclose that in a clear and conspicuous way. Forunately, exactly what that looks like has some room for interpretation within your post.