From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:49:20 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Escrowing Viewing and Reading Habits with the Governmen
In-Reply-To: <9601291905.AA20307@toad.com>
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 > 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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