Reading 1 - http://www.noplacetohide.net/
-The government has a deep investment in online information tracking
-Metadata left in imprints could be a possible reason for the lack of internet privacy
Reading 2 - http://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
-With the Terrorism Information Act, government gained unchecked access to personal materials over electronic networks
-News leans towards this being an abuse of federal or gov't power
-Costs of this act has far outweighed its need
Reading 3 - http://greatlibrarynews.blogspot.com/2008/09/myturn-protecting-privacy-rights-in.html
-Legislation has now allowed for libraries to transmit certain aspects of patrons' information
-This is an overreach which has been rejected and compromised in many locations
-This raises serious questions of ethics as libraries can be put in the middle of government-citizen disputes or government monitoring
-Libraries could become less trusted if the public views their information as insecure there
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