[WEB4LIB] Re: FBI to monitor libraries

[Karen G. Schneider]

:>People also worry that somehow "the government" is going to read all
:>of everybody's email and do all sorts of nasty things to them.  Even
:>"the government" can't possibly read all of everybody's email.  That
:I'm sure there are people on this list who can comment technically, but
is
:this
:necessarily true?

The consequences of the USA PATRIOT Act are significant.  Now the
government can come on site, install monitoring devices on a server,
preventing you from complaining about it or alerting your patrons that
(the FISA gag order), and hang around indefinitely.  Now the government
can request and receive a "roving wiretap," which follows the suspect
from device to device.

See http://www.aclu.org/congress/l110101a.html

Now the government is working to loosen its ability to do "domestic"
spying.  See:  http://www.aclu.org/congress/l053002a.html

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