{"id":24799,"date":"2024-07-01T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/news-18529\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:10:11","slug":"news-18529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/news-18529\/","title":{"rendered":"Busted for book club? Why cops want to see what you’re reading, with Sarah Lamdan (Lock and Code S05E14)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week on the Lock and Code podcast<\/em>…<\/p>\n

More than 20 years ago, a law that the United States would eventually use to justify the warrantless collection of Americans’ phone call records actually started out as a warning sign against an entirely different target: Libraries. <\/p>\n

Not two months after terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Congress responded with the passage of The USA Patriot Act. Originally championed as a tool to fight terrorism, The Patriot Act, as introduced, allowed the FBI to request \u201cany tangible things\u201d from businesses, organizations, and people during investigations into alleged terrorist activity. Those \u201ctangible things,\u201d the law said, included \u201cbooks, records, papers, documents, and other items.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or, to put it a different way: things you\u2019d find in a library and records of the things you\u2019d check out from a library. The concern around this language was so strong that this section of the USA Patriot Act got a new moniker amongst the public: \u201cThe library provision.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Patriot Act passed, and years later, the public was told that, all along, the US government wasn\u2019t interested in library records. <\/p>\n

But those government assurances are old.<\/p>\n

What remains true is that libraries and librarians want to maintain the privacy of your records. And what also remains true is that the government looks anywhere it can for information to aid investigations into national security, terrorism, human trafficking, illegal immigration, and more.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s changed, however, is that companies that libraries have relied on for published materials and collections\u2014Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, Lexis Nexis\u2014have reimagined themselves as big data companies. And they\u2019ve lined up to provide newly collected data to the government, particularly to agencies like Immigrations and Customers Enforcement, or ICE.<\/p>\n

There are many layers to this data web, and libraries are seemingly stuck in the middle.<\/p>\n

Today, on the Lock and Code podcast with host Davd Ruiz, we speak with Sarah Lamdan, deputy director Office of Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association, about library privacy in the digital age, whether police are legitimately interested in what the public is reading, and how a small number of major publishing companies suddenly started aiding the work of government surveillance:<\/p>\n

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“Because to me, these companies were information providers. These companies were library vendors. They’re companies that we work with because they published science journals and they published court reporters. I did not know them as surveillance companies.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tune in today to listen to the full conversation. <\/p>\n

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Show notes and credits:<\/em><\/p>\n

Intro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com<\/a>)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Outro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)<\/p>\n

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