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Libraries To Feds: Stop Spying On Us -- Washington Times
Libraries around the nation have joined together to pressure lawmakers to clamp down on the federal government’s ability to demand data on the books that borrowers’ read and the Internet sites that visitors search.
The Patriot Act bolstered the FBI’s power to demand that libraries give up data on users. And some are seeing the situation in recent years as soaring out of control, creating a “climate of concern” of federal overreach, The Hill reported..
“You need to have some freedom to learn about what you think is important without worrying about whether it ends up in some FBI file,” said Alan Inouye, director of the Office for Information Technology Policy at the American Library Association, in The Hill.
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Update: Libraries fear 'ravenous' NSA -- The Hill
My Comment: This falls under the jurisdiction of the FBI .... but in view of how omnipresent the NSA has been in collecting user data and information .... you have to wonder to what extent has this been applied to the nation's library system.
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