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> they are likely to ask the library in town if anyone had checked out a book that outlined how to make a firebomb or similar I'm hoping that the town library
by dtgriscom 3y ago
> they are likely to ask the library in town if anyone had checked out a book that outlined how to make a firebomb or similar
I'm hoping that the town library would stonewall any such request:
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy
- taeric 3y agoBut your own link has https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/lawenforcement/guidelines https://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/lawenforcement/guidelin... That is, there is a good chance something like this request would be honored by any library. "Any chance you saw a person following the victim out of the building?".
- autoexec 3y agoLibraries haven't really been that big on privacy lately. They did fight against the government collecting our reading lists but when they lost that battle it feels like they just gave up. Now they encourage people to use 3rd party DRM filled apps that collect personal information including people's reading lists so that those apps can use that data to (among other things) push ads at them. That's the kind of thing a librarian would have strongly opposed a decade or two ago, but today they push those apps on adults and children without even mentioning the privacy issues.
- Ylpertnodi 3y agoWould that be because they are dealing with an uneducated public? I gave up discussing privacy of late...too darn depressing.
- taeric 3y agoSadly, the DRM is because they are fighting copyright holders, more likely.