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  Um, no. Paranoia's unnecessary. All states have laws on the books protecting the privacy of library records. Any records must be requested with proper court orders. And frankly we aren't as cooperative as "the man" might like -- witness the Connecticut Four who resisted a Patriot Act security letter. It's standard practice in libraries to keep information only as long as it's needed, extract the statistics, and dump it. When you check out a book, for example, it's only connected to your name in our systems for as long as you have it out. We don't want our users to be tracked any more than our users want to be.

  July 26, 2007

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