Canada: Patriot Act Fears Prompt Universities to Patriate Computers
A CBC newswire article, via CBC News, reports that:
Dozens of Canadian university and college libraries are changing how they arrange for their students and faculty to do online research, in part because of a U.S. law intended to detect possible terrorist activity.More here.
The universities subscribe to RefWorks, a popular American research tool that helps academics with research, as well as with completing citations and bibliographies.
However, the U.S. Patriot Act — created in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington — allows government officials to sweep through databases, including RefWorks, as part of routine surveillance.
Conceivably, the searches of a student or faculty member doing work on a sensitive issue could be flagged and then stored in the U.S.
posted by Fergie @ 10/31/2006 02:57:00 PM
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