Archive for August 14th, 2003

Google News Alerts

Thursday, August 14th, 2003

Well, I did it. After reading some of the discussion on Newslib, a news librarians’ discussion group, I signed up for Google News Alerts.
I was a little surprised to go to Google’s alerts and just have a simple box for a search string, another for an e-mail address, and the choice of [...]

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Senator Feingold’s USA PATRIOT Act Fix

Thursday, August 14th, 2003

This is news from the end of July that I missed somehow:
“The Library, Bookseller, and Personal Records Privacy Act would restore the privacy of Americans, while also allowing the FBI to follow up on legitimate leads,” [Senator Russ] Feingold said. “This legislation recognizes that under certain circumstances the FBI should have access to library, bookseller [...]

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