Licensing Privacy | White Papers

The Licensing Privacy project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, seeks to use the power of library licensing agreements to effect change in third-party platform practices in order to bring them into alignment with library values of privacy, confidentiality, and respect for user control over their own data. It reflects an identified Pathway for Action from the IMLS-supported National Web Privacy Forum. The goal is to develop model license language on user privacy that would support libraries in advocating for user privacy when contracting for services and content. By ensuring that user privacy is contractually protected in licensing agreements, service contracts, etc., libraries would be able to hold platforms accountable for their data practices. Multiple white papers have been published as deliverables of Licensing Privacy.

Contributor: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.