The growth of digital publications provides increased opportunity for vendors to collect data about digital content usage. Emily Cukier writes: “Big publishers are getting into large scale user data collection that—without sufficient privacy protection—enables public surveillance. This change in business model puts academic and intellectual freedom at risk by making people reluctant to read or share publications for fear of government or commercial reprisal. One solution is more collective attention to and pushback on contract terms to curb use of library users’ personal data.”