Checking out library users

Libraries remain a focus of the debate over personal privacy in the age of terrorism. A recent Associated Press news story reminded me of that and how government often uses terrorism as a trump card in the privacy game.

In the Randolph, Vt., library, children’s librarian Judith Flint recently found herself confronted by state police detectives. They wanted to seize the library’s public-access computers. She refused them access.

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