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ALA's new privacy rights initiative is intended to inspire library patrons to stand with librarians as they fight to usher in privacy standards in the digital age.  The initiative responds to ALA Council's resolution calling for a national conversation on privacy, passed at the 2006 Annual Conference in New Orleans.

ALA Privacy Initiative Concept Paper

Rallying Americans for the Right to Information Privacy (PDF)

Privacy Revolution Survey

Take the Privacy Revolution Survey!  Thank you for taking time to respond to this survey.  It should take only 5-10 minutes to complete.  If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to dstone@ala.org.

2008 Annual Conference Program "Privacy: Is it Time for a Revolution?" 

We created a video of the program as well as videos broken down speaker-by-speaker:

Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and BoingBoing blogger

Dan Roth, Wired Senior Editor

Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse