Bad day for information servers. The New York Times (registration required to read the article) reports:
“Using its expanded power under the antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act, the F.B.I. is demanding library records from a Connecticut institution as part of an intelligence investigation, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday.”
Of course, one of the reasons this is of concern shows up in this paragraph in the story:
“In the debate over the future of the antiterrorism law, the administration has said that it has never used the so-called library provision in the law, which falls under Section 215, to demand records from libraries or booksellers.”
The protections built against encroachment on information about individuals always end up being breached by government it seems.
And what should librarians do?
