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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

The following is an excerpt from Tomorrow’s Jobs Today, Wisdom & Career Advice from Thought Leaders in AI, Big Data, Blockchain, the Internet of Things, Privacy, and More , available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and wherever fine books are sold. What’s it like to work in this field?

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Google discloses a severe flaw in widely used Libgcrypt encryption library

Security Affairs

Google discovered a flaw in GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)’s Libgcrypt encryption library that could be exploited to get remote code execution. It’s also the crypto library used by systemd for DNSSEC. The team recommends users to stop using the vulnerable version of the library. which we released last week.

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Privacy of Printing Services

Schneier on Security

Some services, like the New York Public Library and PrintWithMe, do both. Some—including Canon, FedEx and Staples—declined to answer basic questions about their privacy practices. Print services should also communicate clearly upfront what information they’re collecting and why.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 30 October – 5 November 2023

IT Governance

Library branches remain open, Wi-Fi is still available and materials can still be borrowed. Records breached: According to the library’s 4 November update , there is “no evidence that the personal information of our staff or customers has been compromised”. As of the publication of this blog post, the Library’s website remains offline.

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LibTech EdTech – transition, challenges and contradictions

CILIP

CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Gary Horrocks THE summer 2023 issue of UKeiG’s open access journal, eLucidate , featured my reflections on the implications of a Members’ Day presentation by Ken Chad on the “library technology ecosystem". Ken notes there is “a dichotomy between the provision of library resources and learning resources.”

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The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter April 2021 Edition available via Library and Archives Canada

IG Guru

The post The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter April 2021 Edition available via Library and Archives Canada appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the post here.

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Police can access My Health Record without court order, parliamentary library warns

The Guardian Data Protection

Advice from independent researcher contradicts health minister and raises more privacy concerns The health minister, Greg Hunt, was wrong to claim that patients’ My Health Record could only be accessed by police with a court order, according to advice from the parliamentary library.