Patriot Act fears prompt Canadian universities to patriate computers

The CBC Reports Dozens of Canadian university and college libraries are changing how they arrange for their students and faculty to do online research, in part because of a U.S. law intended to detect possible terrorist activity.

“It’s an issue of privacy; [that’s] what it comes down to,” said Karen Lippold, a librarian at Memorial University in St. John’s.

Conceivably, the searches of a student or faculty member doing work on a sensitive issue could be flagged and then stored in the U.S.