cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/15657357
Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at risk
At first I thought it said libertarians lol
Those guys too busy larping corpo propaganda and they love love their private sector daddies
Glad the librarians care.
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.