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Results of CNI Authorization/Authentication Survey
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In June and July 2016 the
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) conducted a brief e-mail
survey of its college and university members on authentication and
authorization practices related to sharing user information with
library-licensed external content providers (publishers, platform
providers and aggregators). The survey was sent to member
representatives at some 188 institutions representing both the library
and information technology organizations. We asked about both
technical and contractual approaches to the control and management of
this data. We wanted to ascertain the extent to which information
about individual users of licensed content was being passed to content
providers, and if so, what measures were being taken to control this
data, to determine the extent to which privacy concerns in this
area were or were not being addressed by higher education
institutions.
The results of the survey are now
available here:
https://www.cni.org/go/report-authentication-survey-2016
I would be happy to answer any
questions about this report.
My thanks to the CNI member
representatives and others at those institutions for taking the time
to provide such informative responses.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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