Patriot Act used by FBI to secretly take library records
This is probably a good opportunity to mention the "Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances" website again.
Thanks to Declan McCullagh for pointing out this article in his PoliTech Blog.
Via the ACLU website.
The American Civil Liberties Union today disclosed that the FBI has used a controversial Patriot Act power to demand records from an organization that possesses “a wide array of sensitive information about library patrons, including information about the reading materials borrowed by library patrons and about Internet usage by library patrons.” The FBI demand was disclosed in a new lawsuit filed in Connecticut, which remains under a heavy FBI gag order.
The ACLU is seeking an emergency court order to lift the gag so that its client can participate in the public debate about the Patriot Act as Congress prepares to reauthorize or amend it in September.
posted by Fergie @ 8/25/2005 06:48:00 PM
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