[Eril-l] Privacy and New EBSCO personal login feature - Google login

[Harper, Cynthia]

You’re right.  I was just knee-jerk reacting to the latest “feature” on EBSCO’s site that won’t work and our  patrons will wonder why, but maybe we can have a principled statement why we choose not to support it…

CH


From: Hinchliffe, Lisa W <ljanicke at illinois.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 3:47 PM
To: Divan, Linda A <divanl at cedarville.edu>; Harper, Cynthia <charper at vts.edu>
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Subject: Privacy and New EBSCO personal login feature - Google login

I’ve changed the subject line because I’m going to shift the topic a bit. Am I the only librarian who is a bit alarmed at the idea of authenticating to a library resource through Google and the privacy (like there is none?) implications? Someone please tell me I’m misunderstanding and explain that this is actually in keeping with the NISO Privacy Principles or something?

Lisa


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From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Divan, Linda A
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 2:30 PM
To: Harper, Cynthia <charper at vts.edu<mailto:charper at vts.edu>>
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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] New EBSCO personal login feature - Google login - and WAM

We tried the Google authentication yesterday on-campus (not using EZproxy) in Firefox and Chrome and it worked fine.

After seeing about problems with remote access, I used VPN to go off-campus (so we first authenticated through EZproxy to get to EBSCO ebooks) and in Firefox got a blank screen, in Chrome an error message.

Linda Divan
Library Systems Co-ordinator
Centennial Library
Cedarville University
251 N. Main St.
Cedarville, OH  45314

937-766-7843
divanl at cedarville.edu<mailto:divanl at cedarville.edu>

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Harper, Cynthia <charper at vts.edu<mailto:charper at vts.edu>> wrote:
So, after all our work making sure users can create personal accounts on EBSCO ebooks when we’re using WAM, we now see that they’ve enabled Google authentication.  And of course, it does not work with WAM (redirecting host site 0-auth-ebsco-zone.librarycatalog.vts.edu<http://0-auth-ebsco-zone.librarycatalog.vts.edu> not recognized.)  So I’m wondering if I turn off the WAM proxying of auth.ebsco.zone would Google authentication work????  I’ll ask EBSCO, but I thought I’d ask if anyone else has had a chance to look at this???

Cindy Harper

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