Choose Privacy Week Kickoff

The first Choose Privacy Week will be held May 2-8, 2010. At the kickoff event, held at the American Library Association's 2010 Midwinter Meeting in Boston January 16, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom Director Barbara Jones discusses Choose Privacy Week and how librarians can participate, and kickoff event speaker Hal Niedzviecki discusses the importance of a national conversation on privacy. For details about Choose Privacy Week, see www.privacyrevolution.org.

January 25, 2010



The first Choose Privacy Week will be held May 2-8, 2010. At the kickoff event, held at the American Library Association’s 2010 Midwinter Meeting in Boston January 16, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom Director Barbara Jones discusses Choose Privacy Week and how librarians can participate, and kickoff event speaker Hal Niedzviecki discusses the importance of a national conversation on privacy. For details about Choose Privacy Week, see www.privacyrevolution.org. More ALA videos at americanlibrariesmagazine.org/al_focus/videos.

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At the Choose Privacy Week kick-off event at ALA's 2010 Midwinter Meeting in Boston, social critic Hal Niedzviecki, author of The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, discusses peep culture, our increased appetite for surveillance, and the implications these attributes have on society. More ALA videos at americanlibrariesmagazine.org/al_focus/videos.