Introducing: Information Policy News

Abstract

The BCLA Information Policy Committee introduces our new regular Browser column. We introduce the committee and our activities, and invite any BCLA member to join the committee. Also in this quarter's column, we highlight our recent Information Policy Salon, in which Jennifer Parisi spoke to the committee about Community Resistance and Public Surveillance. Parisi recently completed a MA thesis that focused on three very different  anti-surveillance activist groups, all with different participants and approaches. This Salon was also an opportunity to discuss the upcoming Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Games, the surveillance issues that come with those massive international events, and what individuals and libraries might do to increase awareness of citizen surveillance and privacy issues.