[privacy] Feds Drop Request for Library Records

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Boston Globe (AP).

[snip]

Federal authorities have dropped their demand for records from a
library computer, but not without warning the librarians who refused to
release them that under other circumstances their failure to cooperate
"could have increased the danger of terrorists succeeding."

The FBI said Monday that it has discounted a potential terrorism threat
that prompted it to seek records last year from a computer at one of 26
Connecticut libraries that are part of a consortium called the Library
Connection.

Four librarians on the consortium's board who received the demand
resisted, which the FBI said slowed its work.

[snip]

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/06/26/feds_drop_request_for_library_records/

Background:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/36953/

- ferg


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