"Terror Reading"
Steve Schear
schear at lvcm.com
Wed Jun 26 09:49:53 PDT 2002
At 10:48 AM 6/26/2002 -0400, Kathleen Dolan wrote:
>In many states, it is illegal to store records showing who borrowed a
>book from a public library. Maryland, for example, requires destruction of
>the record after a point and even backups cannot be accessed without a
>court order.
>
>KAD
Say a public library implements a policy of replying positively to all such
inquiries, that is, if asked by a patron the db admin will tell them when
their account is free of such inquiries. If a request does come in then
the db admin can either: fail to respond (monitoring implied), tell them
they are being monitored (violating the law) or lie and say they are not
even if they are. So, can the Feds require a librarian to lie to a
customer who inquires whether their library usage is being monitored?
steve
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