[WEB4LIB] RE: FBI to monitor libraries

[Thomas Dowling]

 > 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.

A number of libraries now provide access to services from locations other 
than their own workstations.  :-\

If I'm at home alone, idly exploring topics of interest (say, falafel 
recipes, U.S. cultural/economic imperialism, and avionics), I would very 
likely expect my research to be private.  I am not a lawyer, so I don't 
know if that translates into a legal expectation of privacy.  I am, 
however, a library webmaster, so I've been thinking long and hard about 
what we log, and why, and how long we keep which log files.



Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu