[48559] in Cypherpunks
Re: Escrowing Viewing and Reading Habits with the Governmen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Mon Jan 29 21:29:36 1996
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:04:47 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <9601291905.AA20307@toad.com> from "Peter Trei" at Jan 29, 96 02:13:21 pm
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
> Do you really think the FBI believes that asking librarians to keep
> records of customer useage is an efficient way to read the customers minds?
> Do you really think that the FBI foreign counter-intelligence squad has
> nothing better to do than keep a database of who is reading Che Guevara
> memoirs?
>
> Yes.
>
> Heck, I remember this was a big issue about 15 years ago. Try asking
> someone who was active in library science in the late 70's, early 80's.
>
> The general reaction of the library community was, I am glad to say,
> entirely pro-privacy.
Ask Sean at dra.com. The s/w industry even designs library systems
so as to purge data the Feebs might want. That that does not exist can
not be surrendered.
And this is not a cost-free choice to them. There is & will be a
percentage of book vandals. If your circulation system could tell you:
Who checked out X, Y, Z & T?
You might catch the creeps. But they prefer buying new books to the
alternative....
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