[WEB4LIB] RE: FBI to monitor libraries

[Cantona, Eric]

A member wrote previously:

> >I don't care much about what any court has said.
> > This is what my profession
> > holds me to.
> > *Anyone* should have a reasonable expectation of
> > privacy for *anything* they do
> > in a library.

But what is a reasonable expectation of privacy?  The Internet is a public
network.  The PC is a public access node.  The library is a public building.

How much privacy can one assume from that setting?

-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Winter [mailto:dwinter at tln.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:20 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: FBI to monitor libraries


> 
> 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.)
> 

Hear, Hear! If you've got nothing to hide, who cares what you read/look at
on the internet. It's been really bugging me that so many people on this
list are bent on protecting the rights of suspected criminals and nobody
has spoken up on the opposite side. 


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