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I have wanted to publish a column on privacy as it relates to library technology for a while. While privacy has always been an issue at the forefront of librarians' minds, revelations surrounding the NSA's far-reaching data-collection programs and a seemingly unending string of high-profile breaches at major companies make paying attention to privacy all the more pressing. Having discovered Alison Macrina's work via an appropriately-titled article \"Radical Librarianship: How Ninja Librarians are Ensuring Patrons' Electronic Privacy\" she was an obvious choice for author. Her work with the Library Freedom Project is vitally important to the future of libraries and recently earned a Knight Foundation grant.

If you've been following the revelations of the last year and half detailing the overbroad and often illegal collection of data by the NSA surveillance machine and its various government and corporate partners, you've no doubt heard of Tor. It's a powerful tool for anonymity, one of many tools that whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, activists, journalists, and everyday people use to help conceal their identities online. The Tor web browser was featured in some of NSA slides that Snowden leaked; according to the spies, it's a tool for terrorists and other criminals, which ignores the many legitimate reasons noncriminals might want to conceal their sensitive personal data from spies and hackers. Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor is fundamentally a proxy that masks the location information and browsing history of the user, allowing for anonymous use of the Internet.

Recently, I was teaching a privacy class for librarians, and the topic turned to the privacy versus convenience trade-off--the occasional annoyances of using privacy-enhancing technologies online. An audience member laid out what she felt I was asking of the group. \"You're telling us to start selling granola when everyone else is running a candy store.\" I thought about her comment for a moment. \"Yes, but don't you see? There's about to be a huge demand for granola, and no one else will have it.\"