Over the past couple of months, advocates have lamented over the demise of online privacy. In January 2010, Eric Schmidt (Chairman and CEO of Google, Inc.) announced, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”1 The same month, Mark Zuckerberg (co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Inc.) stated that no expectation of privacy is part of current social norms.2 In February 2010, other than a rumor of an announcement the day before, Gmail users had their personal information shared with their email contacts through a service called “Google Buzz”. For seven days, Google was swamped with complaints that they had failed to account for personal privacy requirements. Then, just two weeks ago, Eric Schmidt revealed that "the company misjudged public reaction to its decision to automatically load its Twitter, Facebook-like Buzz service into Gmail."3
At Western-Arcade Library, we take your privacy seriously. We have never, nor will ever, share your checkout history with anyone. Your reference and research questions are kept confidential. Your personal records (e.g. name, address, phone numbers ...etc.) are restricted to official seminary use only.
Unlike online mega players like Google and Facebook, the library will never experiment with your privacy rights. End of chapter.
1. http://tinyurl.com/ya7nh22
2. http://tinyurl.com/yl5dvjc
3. http://tinyurl.com/ykcf7w2
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