Re: proxying Google Book Search and advertising networks to protect patron privacy

From: Nate Vack <njvack_at_nyob> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:12:30 -0500 To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST
Research<glen.newton_at_nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:

> It may/should help protect the user's privacy from the server end (from
> Google), not the client end.

Yeah. When I use Google Books in a library, how would Google know who I am?

Of course, they would know if I were to log in, but proxying doesn't solve that.

Cheers,
-Nate