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Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels” (themarkup.org)

submitted 6 months ago by ptz@dubvee.org to c/libraries@literature.cafe

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Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at risk

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[–] coffeeClean@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Some of them do, while some libraries proactively take steps to /block/ people who make egress Tor connections from the library’s network, which is a revolting contrast to the librarians who care. The same libraries who block Tor also impose SMS verification on Wi-Fi users. Note that article is US based and only the US has a “Library Bill of Rights”. Outside the US it’s quite a different story.

I wonder if it’s because privacy is in such a poor state of affairs in the US to start with that the US libraries are motivated to give some refuge.