Libraries bow to Patriot Act
2003-04-23 20:23:40.370996+00 by Shawn 2 comments
Up here the King County Journal is reporting that county libraries have reluctantly agreed to abide by new laws that require them to turn over information about what patrons have checked out or viewed over the Internet - despite a computer system that regularly purges such data. A note from the article:
To date, neither the county libraries nor the Renton library has been served a request for information under the Patriot Act.
has me asking; I thought the dictates of the Patriot Act stipulated that they couldn't tell us even if there were.