Hello! The P&C Section committee is excited to share its April News Roundup with you.
If you have any privacy and confidentiality related news, events, or resources to share, let us know! We can add it to next month's News Roundup. Email us at SAAPrivacy@gmail.com.
Section update
- Have you created institutional best practices for archiving or tracking private or confidential information? If so, we need your help! Please consider sharing your best practices, procedures or forms with the P&C Section documentation portal. To contribute, submit documents through our form or email them to Section Vice-Chair Katrina Windon at windon@uark.edu
- Check out our March blog post: Q&A with Heather Briston Part II. In this blog series, we'll be featuring Heather's answers to the questions we ran out of time for during our December webinar. The second post focuses on FERPA, HIPAA and records law. We'll be putting up new posts soon, so be on the lookout!
News and resources roundup
- For the record: Digitizing archives can increase access to information but compromise privacy, The Conversation
- Greg Bak, Associate Professor of History (Archival Studies), University of Manitoba, calls attention to how digitization in Canadian archives undermines privacy, Indigenous sovereignty, and intellectual property rights.
- For Adoptees, a Deep Yearning 'to Know Where You Come From', New York Times
- Should adoption records be open? Several adoptees, birth parents and others offer their personal, often moving stories.
- France to speed up declassification of secret archives on Algeria War, France 24
- "French President Emmanuel Macron announced a decision...to speed up the declassification of secret documents related to Algeria's 1954-62 war of independence from France."
- Irish mother and baby homes: Inquiry 'backup tapes' discovered, BBC News
- An update to the Irish Mother and Baby Homes former residents who shared their personal memories of the homes as part of the Confidential Committee section of the inquiry and although they agreed to be recorded, they were guaranteed anonymity. There was controversy surrounding the destruction of the recorded interviews. Backup tapes have been located in an off-site facility. The commission will determine if the tapes contain the personal accounts, or not.
- Our Sustained Commitment to Native Communities: Adoption of the Protocols as Ongoing Collection Management Process
- Policies and procedures for responding to inquiries related to the Protocols and enhancing our practices regarding deeds of gift, licensing, sharing, and accessing collections containing Native American archival materials.
- Krucker, Madeleine and Nicole D'Angela. "The Current State of Privacy in Canadian Archives." Sagesse 6, no. 1 (2021). The Current State of Privacy in Canadian Archives – ARMA Canada Region
- "This paper explores the situation of privacy in Canadian archives, focusing on personal records within non-government institutions. It provides a review of Canadian privacy legislation and past discussions in the information management community that have addressed the relationship between archives and privacy."
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DiAnna Hemsath
Archivist
University of Nebraska Medical Center - McGoogan Health Sciences Library
Omaha, Nebraska
dianna.hemsath@unmc.edu------------------------------