New study: "User tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical #library setting now happens routinely through #publisher #platforms."
https://zenodo.org/records/13886473
#Elsevier #Privacy #Publishers #ScienceDirect #SpringerNature #SpringerLink #Surveillance
Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. Combined with our 2023 report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform, this analysis illustrates the wide range of privacy risks inherent in the business models and practices in the academic scholarship marketplace. Among other findings, the report documents risks related to the 200 named third parties that are allowed to collect information from users of the site (along with what appear to be additional unlisted companies found only in our public website analysis). While the specific privacy concerns posed by SpringerLink are different, our analysis reiterates the findings from our ScienceDirect report: that user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms. While this analysis and recommended actions are grounded in the library context, these findings will raise pressing issues for faculty, administrators, and policymakers to consider as well. The report closes with suggested actions that libraries can take over both the short and long term to address vendor privacy risks.
A useful reminder that negotiations with academic big #publishers, especially with so-called 'Next Generation OA' negotiations on the horizon, need to seek the removal of user #surveillance as a basic academic freedom. This seems even more necessary for any of this OA window dressing to at all correspond with BOAI20 aspirations. Navigating Risk in Vendor Data #Privacy Practices: An Analysis of... #SpringerLink https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13886472 #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenScience #scholcomm #BOAI
A useful reminder that negotiations with academic big #publishers, especially with so-called 'Next Generation OA' negotiations on the horizon, need to seek the removal of user #surveillance as a basic academic freedom. This seems even more necessary for any of this OA window dressing to at all correspond with BOAI20 aspirations.
Navigating Risk in Vendor Data #Privacy Practices: An Analysis of... #SpringerLink https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13886472 #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenScience #scholcomm #BOAI
Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. Combined with our 2023 report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform, this analysis illustrates the wide range of privacy risks inherent in the business models and practices in the academic scholarship marketplace. Among other findings, the report documents risks related to the 200 named third parties that are allowed to collect information from users of the site (along with what appear to be additional unlisted companies found only in our public website analysis). While the specific privacy concerns posed by SpringerLink are different, our analysis reiterates the findings from our ScienceDirect report: that user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms. While this analysis and recommended actions are grounded in the library context, these findings will raise pressing issues for faculty, administrators, and policymakers to consider as well. The report closes with suggested actions that libraries can take over both the short and long term to address vendor privacy risks.
Organisierte Verantwortungslosigkeit bei #DataCartels - @sparc hat 200 Third Parties bei #SpringerLink gefunden: "In addition, the SpringerLink Privacy Policy explicitly states that SpringerLink is not responsible for the data collected by third parties through trackers placed on its own website. This policy decision leaves library workers and users without meaningful recourse on how these third parties handle personal data collected from their use of SpringerLink."
Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. Combined with our 2023 report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform, this analysis illustrates the wide range of privacy risks inherent in the business models and practices in the academic scholarship marketplace. Among other findings, the report documents risks related to the 200 named third parties that are allowed to collect information from users of the site (along with what appear to be additional unlisted companies found only in our public website analysis). While the specific privacy concerns posed by SpringerLink are different, our analysis reiterates the findings from our ScienceDirect report: that user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms. While this analysis and recommended actions are grounded in the library context, these findings will raise pressing issues for faculty, administrators, and policymakers to consider as well. The report closes with suggested actions that libraries can take over both the short and long term to address vendor privacy risks.
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More info on the book is available on the #SpringerLink website https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-05263-7
@rstats In case you haven't seen it yet: Due to the Corona crisis #Springer publishers provide several #rstats books for free:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-72347-1
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