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Wednesday, February 13, 2002 |
Washington Plans Unprecedented Camera Network "Washington police are building what will be the nation's biggest network of surveillance cameras to monitor shopping areas, streets, monuments and other public places in the U.S. capital, a move that worries civil liberties groups, The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday. The system would eventually include hundreds of cameras, linking existing devices in Metro mass transit stations, public schools and traffic intersections to new digital cameras mounted to watch over neighborhoods and shopping districts, the Journal said." [at The Washington Post]
This is pretty scary. How long do you suppose it will be before they want to put the cameras in library branches? And then subpoena circulation records?
6:19:03 PM 
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Another Salon pointer today: Big Brother Is Watching You Read. "Increasingly, the government is demanding that bookstores reveal what books their customers have purchased. Bookstore owners and privacy advocates say that's scarier than a Stephen King novel."
While it focuses on recent cases of law enforcement officials getting subpoenas for bookstore records, it does have a quote from Judith Krug at ALA. Unfortunately, they don't run with it and explore the impact on libraries, which is huge given the recent "USA Patriot Act" (a horrible misnomer at best). If you haven't started preparing for a knock on the door from the police, you should. Even though you won't be able to tell anybody about it.
9:39:28 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Jenny Levine.
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