Electronic Privacy

Does it exist?

Issue: Privacy concerns with library and bookseller records continue due to the reauthorization of Section 215. The USA PATRIOT Act increased the ability of law enforcement agencies to search library, telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records. Specifically Section 215, often called the “library provision,” allows the FBI to order any person or entity to turn over “any tangible thing” – including library records – as long as the FBI states that it is for an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities. ALA Office of Government Relations’ Lynne Bradley has pointed out Section 215 has “long been the focus of ALA's efforts to seek reforms to the PATRIOT Act because it particularly addresses law enforcement access to any kind of tangible thing or records.”

How do libraries ensure the privacy of patron records?

Patriot Act “Library Clause”http://img.readitlater.com/i/m.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/mobile-master/art_0/RS/w640.jpg

CISPA

• Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act(CISPA). Widely criticized by privacy advocates, CISPA aimed to beef up US cybersecurity by giving tech companies the legal freedom to share even more cyber information with the US government—including the content of Americans' emails, with personal information intact

NSA

NSA secrets exposed by leaks by Snowden, metadata collection, telephone records, email records, internet browsing history

Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden is an exiled American computer specialist and former CIA employee and NSA contractor who disclosed classified details of several top-secret United States

and British government mass surveillance programs to the press

ALA support for privacy

ALA support for privacy

http://www.ala.org/offices/oif Library Bill of Rights

Adopted June 19, 1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14, 1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; June 27, 196http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/privacy

Adopted June 19, 1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14, 1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; June 27, 196http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/privacy

ALA Office of Government Relations’ Lynne Bradley has pointed out Section 215 has “long been the focus of ALA's efforts to seek reforms to the PATRIOT Act because it particularly addresses law enforcement access to any kind of tangible thing or records.”

https://rally.stopwatching.us/announcing-stop-watching-us-the-video/

youtubeRally in Washington

Hope for the future of privacy online:

10 security tips from EFF

• Encrypt your hard drive• Strong passwords, kept safe password manager.

diceware.com.• Use Tor• Turn on two-factor (or two-step) authentication• Don't click on attachments.• Keep software updated, and use anti-virus software• Keep extra secret information extra secure.• Be an ally Stop Watching Us

New Technology

• Quantum “sealed Envelope’ system enables “perfectly secure” information storage created by Dr. Adrain Kent form the Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theortical Physics

Ben Franklin famously said, “Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.”

www.eff.orgHttp:www.commomcause.orghttp://creativecommons.orghttp://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/privacy