SPARC Report Urges Action to Address Concerns with ScienceDirect Data Privacy Practices
Today, SPARC released Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier’s ScienceDirect. Produced in collaboration with Becky… read more
E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance – Fast Company
In November, a report from Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) exposed the atrocious privacy practices of the world’s… read more
The Scholarly Fingerprinting Industry (Pooley, 2023)
Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Wiley, and SAGE: Many researchers know that the five giant firms publish most of… read more
The Quiet Invasion of ‘Big Information’ – Wired
You might not be familiar with RELX, but it knows all about you. Reed Elsevier LexisNexis (RELX) is a Frankensteinian… read more
Addressing the Alarming Systems of Surveillance Built By Library Vendors
Two major library vendors—RELX and Thomson Reuters—have been building sophisticated, global systems of surveillance that include online tracking technologies, massive… read more