Niedzviecki on Privacy

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.

January 25, 2010



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.

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