Barbara M. Jones2019-09-252019-09-252015-01-292014http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/217634" Danah Boyd’s excellent study of privacy and youth, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (Yale University Press, 2014) inspired the title of this paper. Boyd’s data from 166 United States teens in 18 states led her to conclude that, popular assumptions notwithstanding, the youth culture cares about privacy but constructs private space differently than their elders. Boyd has worked closely with librarians in the United States, because she recognizes that as a profession, librarians here had incorporated privacy into their professional ethics and best practices. Libraries uphold the freedom to read as a core value. But a reader can’t feel free if the government or a corporation is looking over their shoulder—collecting information from their e-book reading device, or collecting data about the books they borrow or the questions they ask. This is particularly complex in an environment in which digital technology gives access at the same time it takes away some privacy."engCreative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5)code of ethicscode of conductlibrariansEconomic ethicsLabour/professional ethicsTechnology ethicsCultural ethicsMedia/communication/information ethicsCommunity ethicsSocial ethicsFamily ethicsEducation and ethicsBook chapter