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"A single company — in fact a small team within that single company — have anointed themselves the arbiters of what is healthy, fair, harmful, obscene, risky, racist, artistic, intentional, and lewd." —Tarleton Gillespie

Pre-order is available now for Protecting Patron Privacy, an authoritative Library Information Technology Association (LITA) Guide edited by Bobbi Newman and Bonnie Tijerina that covers topics including library data collection, retention, use, and protection; and in-house tools such as social network sites, surveillance video, and RFID. The book comes out this Friday.

"But Uber’s handling of passenger payments raises questions about a larger legal issue, potentially far more substantial: not the pocket-change difference in the commission but whether that entire $2 in taxes is improperly coming out of the drivers’ wallets." —Noam Scheiber

"It is a short hop from thinking you know someone to thinking you know what they want or what is good for them, without any need to persuade or even to ask. And removing persuasion as a necessary step from the political sphere removes consent from the political sphere as well.” —Molly Sauter

"This [lack of census funding] is troubling, because statisticians won’t have good data to make their corrections unless there's sufficient money to do enough house-to-house sampling." —Cathy O'Neil