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Bryan Carson is Bryan M. Carson is the Reference and Computer Services Librarian at Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota.  Bryan received his J.D. from the University of Toledo, and his Master's in Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan.  Bryan is the author of "Finding Resources in Philosophy and Ethics," in Carson and Carson, Mindsearch (Big Rapids, MI: Ferris State University, 1993).  An updated version is available at http://www.hamline.edu/~bmcarson/philos.html/   He is also the author of "Librarians need certification and licensing," in AALL Spectrum, June 1997.

Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite

Cason Schmit, Brian N. Larson and Hye-Chung Kum are faculty at the school of public health and the law school at Texas A&M University with expertise in health information regulation, data science and online contracts. U.S. data protection laws often widely permit using data for profit but are more restrictive of socially beneficial uses. They wanted to ask a simple question: Do U.S. privacy laws actually protect data in the ways that Americans want? Using a national survey, we found that the public’s preferences are inconsistent with the restrictions imposed by U.S. privacy laws.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Digital Archives, Health, Healthcare, Information Management, KM, Privacy

Extras – Versuslaw Review

Versuslaw Review By Bryan M. Carson

Bryan Carson is Bryan M. Carson is the Reference and Computer Services Librarian at Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Bryan received his J.D. from the University of Toledo, and his Master’s in Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan. Bryan is the author of “Finding Resources in Philosophy and Ethics,” in Carson and Carson, Mindsearch (Big Rapids, MI: Ferris State University, 1993). An updated version is available at http://www.hamline.edu/~bmcarson/philos.html/ He is also the author of “Librarians need certification and licensing,” in AALL Spectrum, June 1997.

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Subjects: Extras, Online Legal Research Services
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