You may have seen the news, my small claims case against Equifax was mostly successful. This delights me. Mostly because the whole campaign was effective at what I set out to do: raise awareness about online privacy, data brokers, your right to access the court system and seek a redress of grievances, and generally help people understand the world of interconnected systems that we exist within whether we want to or not, whether we opt in or not.
And, for various reasons, the fact that I am a librarian always made it into the headlines: Continue reading “But this IS what a librarian does – the rhetorical value of being a librarian”