Libraries Juggle Privacy Issues is one from The Harvard Crimson that takes a look at privacy issues.
Concerns about civil liberties sent shock waves through the community of librarians and library users throughout the country. Some librarian organizations have even created a line of sarcastic signs informing patrons that their privacy rights are being violated.
But at the world’s largest academic library, fearful voices have quieted.
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“Many faculty members agree. John Womack Jr., Bliss professor of Latin American history and economics, said he was concerned about the influence the Patriot Act could have on his own research, which sometimes brings him into contact with materials that could conceivably be traceable to Latin American terrorist organizations.”
If anyone wants to submit a bill to prevent gov’t agencies from looking at material and tracing backwards to who has had it and when I’ll be more then happy to sign-on.
That’s isn’t happening. We are tracing what actual suspected criminals may or may not be doing, whether at the library or anywhere else for that matter.
If reading is a vital tool for growth and education then how can we attach no relationship with it to a person’s activity or the responsibility of those activities?.