[WEB4LIB] RE: FBI to monitor libraries

[GRAY, PAUL]

One of the first pieces of advice anyone ever gave me when I got started communicating via computer -- is not to put anything out there I wouldn't want to see on a billboard - and that was in reference to my home and office computer.  By common sense definition - anything that is "public" is even less "private".

Along similar lines -- 
Most librarians I know and I have been working with them for many years are extremely fine people -- 
Why they and/or the profession would be so set on providing a safe haven for illegal activity totally eludes me.
(Just my .02 -- don't bother flaming me  - because you won't change my mind any more than I will yours.)

PHG
Hurst, TX

-----Original Message-----
From: Cantona, Eric [mailto:ECantona at plcmc.org]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:36 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: FBI to monitor libraries


I don't know of a single case in which the Supreme Court (or lower) has
ruled that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in the use of a
public computer.

Anyone else?
EC

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew K. Pace [mailto:andrew_pace at ncsu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:27 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] FBI to monitor libraries


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020530/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe
/fbi_reorganizing_40

Interesting that we have been on a thread of OPAC logs.  Is everyone ready
to turn those logs over to the FBI?  Better get the web logs, proxy, and
patron records out while we're at it.  Is there a patron field or web
server log delineation for "foreigner?"  It's always refreshing to see
professional ethics described as "bureaucratic restrictions."

That was sarcasm, just in case anyone has mistaken my ethical concern for
sympathy with Mr. Ashcroft's new plans ;)

-Andrew


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