Legal Advice to CILIP: British and Welsh Library Users’ Privacy May Be Compromised for Security or Police Investigations
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005I occasionally write about the USA PATRIOT ACT’s impact on libraries. Here’s some information from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), a large library/librarian/information scientist professional association in Britain, about privacy and library users’ records. CILIP asked for some legal advice after some investigations involving library records happened at member libraries. A [...]