It may/should help protect the user's privacy from the server end (from
Google), not the client end.
In the original question there is an underlying (perhaps true ;-) )
assumption that librarians are more trustworthy than Google.
-glen :-)
>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> writes:
Nate> Are you talking about proxying connections from library
Nate> computers? For computers in the library, how does a proxy
Nate> help with privacy? How is a person linked to a web request?
Nate> Login records? Video footage? If either of those, wouldn't
Nate> purging the records be the simplest way to provide privacy?
Nate> Sorry if I'm being dumb, but I don't understand how proxying
Nate> helps privacy in this context.
Nate> Cheers, -Nate
Nate> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Eric
Nate> Hellman<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Recent attention to privacy concerns about Google Book Search
>> have led me to investigate whether any libraries are using
>> tools such as proxy servers to enhance patron privacy when
>> using Google Book Search. Similarly, advertising networks (web
>> bugs, for example) could be proxied for the same reason. I
>> would be very interested to hear from any libraries that have
>> done either of these things and of their experiences doing so.
>>
>>
>> Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132
>> Montclair, NJ 07042 USA
>>
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>>
