See Professor Karin Rosemblatt's blog post on the University of North Carolina Press Blog: "Balancing Privacy and Archival Access".
"How should archival institutions balance privacy concerns with the need for access? Preserving privacy is important, certainly. But it is an imperative that needs to be balanced against the benefits of public knowledge. Moreover, access to information may benefit precisely those whose privacy archivists ostensibly aim to protect. Protecting privacy may allow unethical medical experiments or government violations of privacy to remain hidden."
Read the post on the University of North Carolina Press Blog.
Read more on the College of Arts and Humanities website.
See more information about Professor Rosemblatt's latest book, The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950 by UNC Press.
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