[Eril-l] Fwd: [SPARC] SPARC Releases Second Vendor Privacy Report Urging Action to Address Concerns with SpringerLink Data Privacy Practices

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From: Nick Shockey <nick at sparcopen.org>
Date: Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Subject: [SPARC] SPARC Releases Second Vendor Privacy Report Urging Action
to Address Concerns with SpringerLink Data Privacy Practices
To: SPARC Members <sparc-members at sparcopen.org>


Dear SPARC members,

Today, SPARC released our second vendor privacy analysis: *Navigating Risk
in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature’s
SpringerLink <https://zenodo.org/records/13886473>*. Produced in
collaboration with Becky Yoose of LDH Consulting Services, this analysis
builds on our ScienceDirect report <https://zenodo.org/records/10078610>
published last year and documents a variety of practices that undermine
library privacy standards.

SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader
surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. Among
other findings, the report documents risks related to the 200 named third
parties that are allowed to collect information from users of the site
(along with what appear to be additional unlisted companies found only in
our public website analysis). While the specific privacy concerns posed by
SpringerLink are different, our analysis reiterates the findings from our
ScienceDirect report: that user tracking that would be unthinkable in a
physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms.

To fully understand how data may be used, librarians would need to read the
200 additional privacy policies from third parties that would likely
stretch into the thousands of pages, a task complicated by numerous broken
links to these policies at the time of publication. Significant expertise
and capacity are required to understand these policies and the potential
downstream uses of data that may be collected. Few libraries, if any, are
likely to have such resources available to closely review even a single
vendor and its associated third parties, further exacerbating the power
asymmetry between vendors and libraries.

The goal of SPARC’s work in this area is to ensure that privacy is
foundational to systems for open research. Toward this end, the report
closes with suggested actions that libraries can take over both the short
and long term to address vendor privacy risks. SPARC will continue to
support these actions through additional forthcoming resources and our Privacy
& Surveillance Community of Practice
<https://sparcopen.org/our-work/privacy-and-surveillance-community-of-practice/>,
which you can join through our interest form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxJc_Ev6hp50KbLyXRUdgKpilL0PB9VluT7hE2nXgv3whprg/viewform>
.

If you have suggestions for advancing SPARC’s work in this area or would
like to make SPARC aware of specific vendor privacy concerns, please
contact me directly.

Nick
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Nick Shockey
Director of Programs & Engagement, SPARC

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