Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-15 Thread Gary McGath
On 8/14/14 4:32 PM, William Denton wrote: On 14 August 2014, Eric Hellman wrote: Another approach is Tor, both spreading the word about it and how to use it properly, and also about running relays and exit nodes on the Tor network. I run a relay myself, and encourage others to do so.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread Francis Kayiwa
On 08/13/2014 05:08 PM, William Denton wrote: On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote: *ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer around. Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago - they've obviously been discouraged from including that software. If

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread Keith Jenkins
http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out Is this satire?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread Cary Gordon
If you click on the opt-out button, we reserve the right to sell your data, and where permitted, your body and/or soul, to entities targeting luddites, losers and resistors of the inevitable. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Keith Jenkins k...@cornell.edu wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread Karen Coyle
Bill (others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to try anyway. Thanks, kc On 8/13/14, 2:08 PM, William Denton wrote: On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote: *ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread William Denton
On 14 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote: Bill (others), are you running PrivacyBadger alongside AdBlock? I'm concerned about the confluence of decisions there, although tempted to try anyway. I am---Adblock Plus, that is. Haven't noticed any problems (or ads!) or missing content. They seem

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread Eric Hellman
I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to libraries are letting advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs is discussion of privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something? On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Bill (others), are you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread Riley Childs
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Hellman Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:31 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis I must say I'm surprised that most of the response

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread Joshua Nathan Gomez
on behalf of Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:30 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to libraries are letting advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread William Denton
On 14 August 2014, Eric Hellman wrote: I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to libraries are letting advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs is discussion of privacy condomware. Perhaps I've missed something? Indeed no, that's how this thread went. But it's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread Karlsen, Jeffrey
[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Nathan Gomez Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis I agree. What was prompted as a discussion of protecting one's patrons has turned into a discussion

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread Joshua Nathan Gomez
14, 2014 1:32 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis On 14 August 2014, Eric Hellman wrote: I must say I'm surprised that most of the response to libraries are letting advertisers track patrons as they browse their catalogs is discussion

[CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread Eric Hellman
It seems that Code4Lib hasn't discussed this., though the news is 2 weeks old. It seems that there are libraries using social share tools from AddThis, a company that has been using a technology called Canvas Fingerprinting to track users. In other words, it looks like libraries are giving

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread Karen Coyle
I think this would bother me more if I thought that there were a significant number of users who either do not use cookies at all, or who had some kind of effective cookie manager. I suspect that the actual number is very close to zero, in the .n range at best.* I have a problem with

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread Gary McGath
On 8/13/14 1:22 PM, Eric Hellman wrote: It seems that Code4Lib hasn't discussed this., though the news is 2 weeks old. It seems that there are libraries using social share tools from AddThis, a company that has been using a technology called Canvas Fingerprinting to track users. In

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread Jimmy Ghaphery
Interesting thread, AddThis is certainly everywhere (5 percent of the top 100,000 websites--ProPublica), often in contrast to an organization's stated privacy policies. Here's three examples of use within OCLC and their products: http://oclc.org/research/people/follow.html ContentDM:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread William Denton
On 13 August 2014, Karen Coyle wrote: *ps - I had a great cookie manager for a while, but it's no longer around. Cookie control in browsers actually was easier a decade ago - they've obviously been discouraged from including that software. If anyone knows of a good cookie program or plugin,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread Devon
It isn't virtually impossible to block; mapping addthis.com on the client computer to 127.0.0.1 (using /etc/hosts on Linux and Unix machines) does a nice job of it. But anyone who uses it really is betraying the user's trust. I was looking around for a complete set of addthis domains to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread Eric Hellman
I blogged this. http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014/08/libraries-are-giving-away-user-privacy.html Do libraries even realize they're doing this? Eric On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Jimmy Ghaphery jghap...@vcu.edu wrote: Interesting thread, AddThis is certainly everywhere (5 percent of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread Genny Engel
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Hellman Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:37 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis I blogged this. http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread Eric Hellman
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Hellman Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:37 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis I blogged this. http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014/08/libraries-are-giving-away-user-privacy.html Do libraries