CIPR director Michael Zimmer has been appointed Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (JIFP), published by the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom. Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy incorporates many of the features of the Newsletter… Read More
CIPR director Michael Zimmer has been awarded an NSF EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant to pursue a research collaboration with Dr. Jessica Vitak (University of Maryland) and Drs. Jason Pridmore and Daniel Trottier (Erasmus University) on “Mapping Privacy and Surveillance Dynamics… Read More
Please join us for a CIPR Research Lunch on Sept 7, 2016, featuring Dr. Peter Lor Libraries Promoting Peace: Cherished Illusion or Opportunity for Action? Dr. Peter Lor Adjunct Professor, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee Wednesday, September 7, 2016 12:00 –… Read More
CIPR is pleased to welcome Dr. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, from the GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, as a visiting scholar during July 2016. Dr. Kinder-Kurlanda has been a postdoc researcher and head of the Secure Data Center at GESIS since 2012. Since… Read More
CIPR Director Michael Zimmer was an invited participant in a major public symposium on July 7, 2016, to address the near-term impacts of artificial intelligence technologies across social and economic systems. Hosted by The White House’s Office of Science and Technology… Read More
A group of Danish researchers, led by Aarhus University graduate student Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, recently publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid, including usernames, age, gender, location, what kind of relationship (or sex) they’re… Read More
CIPR director Michael Zimmer will be contributing to an American Library Association (ALA) webinar on “Raising Privacy Awareness in Your Library and in Your Community” in preparation for Choose Privacy Week (May 1-7, 2016). From the ALA’s announcement: Is your library preparing to observe Choose… Read More
CIPR Director Michael Zimmer has been named a co-chair of the RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets Working Group, a joint NISO and Research Data Alliance project, focusing on the privacy implications of shared research data. Zimmer will be joining Todd Carpenter (NISO) and Bonnie Tijerina as co-chairs leading… Read More
Marti Koller, English Department Chair at the Baldwin-Woodville High School in northeastern Wisconsin, has been named the winner of the 2015 WLA/WEMTA Intellectual Freedom Award. The award is given jointly by the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) and the Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association (WEMTA). A long-time… Read More
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications, has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a Consensus Framework… Read More