Stalwart alert • Children’s librarian Judith Flint of Randolph, VT held off five state police detectives who wanted to seize Kimball Public Library’s public access computers without a warrant.
Granted the police were searching for a 12-year-old girl, but they has assumed that The Constitution had indeed been repealed, and that showing with a badge and gun is enough.
“The idea that they took all the computers, it’s like data mining,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of intellectual freedom issues for the American Library Association,”Now, all of a sudden, since you used that computer, your information is exposed to law enforcement and can be used in ways that (it) wasn’t intended.'”
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