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SANTA CRUZ — A local grand jury setting out to determine whether or not the countywide library system violated state law by uploading patron data to the cloud came ...

Somewhere in your neighborhood is a free computer equipped to secure your data. That’s because, as it turns out, the D.C. Public Library (DCPL) is a bastion of privacy. Librarians are teaching patrons ...

I am glad a recent letter from a patron raised questions about confidentiality at the Indiana Free Library (“Post library’s online privacy policy,” Peter Miltz, Aug. 14). His letter gives me the ...

CHICAGO (CBS)—A Chicago woman is accusing the Harold Washington Library of failing to protect the privacy of its patrons—and the library is responding tonight. The iconic owls looming over Chicago's ...

If you want to see how a public library adopts technology at scale, consider heading to New York City. There, the New York Public Library has 92 locations and more than 50 million items. It is ...

On April 3 President Trump signed a measure repealing Obama-era broadband privacy rules. Those rules, which had not yet gone into effect, would have required internet service providers (ISPs) to ...

The wholesale eviction of all community newspapers and other publications from the San Francisco Public Library's main branch north entrance, along with removal of all the shelving, last month [see ...

In ensuring user privacy, libraries that provide personalized online services often encounter tensions and contradictions. Tools and technologies that offer opportunities for better engagement do not ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. LOMPOC, CA, September 5, 2024 – The Lompoc Public Library is pleased to now offer a privacy pod for virtual meetings and ...

A contract between Google and the University of Michigan released publicly on Friday contains no provisions for protecting the privacy of people who will eventually be able to search the school's vast ...