An interesting Little Article by Emily Bazar on the Library Awareness Program, which debuted 30 years ago and lasted well into the 1980s. There’s a Book that looks interesting on the program as well.
“Really, it’s the classic standoff between national security interests and individual privacy interests,” said Karen Schneider, chairwoman of the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the California Library Association. “As long as there are going to be national security agencies, they’re going to be very interested in what library users do.”
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