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Privacy in a Digital Age - Carnegie UK Trust Seminar on Future of Public Libraries

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This seminar, sponsored by the Carnegie UK Trust as part of a study tour on the future of public libraries, explores privacy and the role that libraries can play in this arena. Keynote speaker Bruce Schneier paints a bleak picture of the erosion of privacy, since we are all constantly creating a data trail. Yet he declares that none of this is irreversible. It's a question of changing our laws, policies, and norms, and libraries can help.

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