The Laboratorium : GBS: Looking at Privacy Through the Lens of the Security Standard

Eric Hellman has an interesting post, What the Google Books Settlement Agreement Says About Privacy. He provides a lot of context on how libraries currently implement security and deal with privacy issues with other electronic databases. He also reads the settlement’s security provisions in some detail, and manages to back out from them some specifics about what privacy could and couldn’t look like for the subscription service the settlement sets up.