LISNews: Librarian News

This week's program brings another retransmission from the Voice of America where the continuing cyber-snooping situation is discussed. Stephen tells a tale of how communications metadata can be used in a benign but contemporary way. A news miscellany is also presented.

Related links:

• VOA Voice of America: Issues in the News
• Monitoring Times/Shortwave Central: WYFR to close all shortwave services
• The News-Gazette: Library director says mistake was made in book 'weeding'
• Pegasus Librarian: Managing a collection is easier without all those books in the way: The Urbana Free Library’s lesson for the rest of us
• Ars Technica: Encrypted e-mail: How much annoyance will you tolerate to keep the NSA away?
• Practical Cryptography: GPG (2008)
• Free Software Foundation: Fight PRISM through the Free Software Directory
• PCWorld: NSA surveillance hikes interest in non-US cloud providers
• CBS MoneyWatch: Why geniuses don't have jobs

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This special edition discusses the current news of revelations of government acquisition of Verizon cell phone customer call records and discusses some software solutions available for preserving privacy.

Related links:

• ACLU on Obama’s NSA Snooping on Verizon Customers: ‘It Is Beyond Orwellian’ | Jammie Wearing Fools
• Leaked docs show NSA collects data on all Verizon customers • The Register
• NSA collecting data on all Verizon calls - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
• Obama Ramps Up Domestic Surveillance: Secret Court Order Requires Verizon To Hand Over All Call Records On A Daily Basis To NSA… | Weasel Zippers
• "Report: Gov’t scooping up Verizon phone records" | protein wisdom
• Report: NSA Was Granted Order to Snag Millions of Verizon Call Records for 3 Months | Threat Level | Wired.com
• Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily | World news | The Guardian
• Secret court order allows the government to access all Verizon call records | PCWorld
• The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Verizon Turning Over Records of Every Domestic Call to the NSA?
• WASHINGTON: Judge behind phone records threw out Obamacare - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com
• Wil Wheaton - Google+ - I'm leaving Verizon today, and looking for a new wireless…
• Wil Wheaton - Google+ - Sen. Chambliss (R-GA): “This is nothing particularly new." …
• Leo Laporte - Google+ - I gave thousands of dollars to help elect +Barak Obama  and…
• White House: Spying on US citizens “critical” tool for fighting terror | Ars Technica
• Top secret doc shows NSA demands Verizon hand over millions of phone records daily | Ars Technica
• Althouse: "Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama."
• The PJ Tatler » White House: Obama ‘Welcomes a Discussion of Tradeoffs Between Security and Civil Liberties’
• The PJ Tatler » Feinstein, Chambliss: Phone Records OK Because Government Didn’t Listen In
• The PJ Tatler » White House Claims NSA Phone Records Dragnet, a ‘Critical Tool’ in Protecting US
• NSA secretly vacuumed up Verizon phone records | Politics and Law - CNET News

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This week's program brings a reading of some of the infamous lines from The LISNews Librarian Pickup Lines.

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Greetings from Ashtabula. My name is Mike Kellat and I am the owner of Erie Looking Productions. I am recording this on Saturday, May 4, 2013. This is for immediate release.

Stephen has received dispatch orders from the Director of the Ashtabula County Board of Elections herself this very morning. As you may or may not be aware, Stephen is thoroughly involved in local democracy by serving as a substitute precinct election official. We have a local election coming up on Tuesday and Stephen has been ordered to a new precinct to take up duty to serve the public by helping conduct the vote. Stephen first served as a poll judge during the November 2012 Presidential General Election.

Our producer continues to be away on medical leave and that is beginning its fourth week. Between that and the requirements placed upon Stephen between now and Tuesday to avoid taking positions on ballot questions which include library issues, I am suspending production of LISTen and the Burning Circle at this time. I am also factoring in the Ubuntu Developer Summit as part of this production suspension so that time is spent appropriately on that.

There shall be no episodes released on Monday, May 6th, or Monday, May 13th. Normal production releases shall resume on Monday, May 20th, which is the Victoria Day holiday in Canada.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. We'll see you on the other side of this production suspension.