Patriot Act.

This is coolbert:

Well, I stand corrected again. I had said in my blog response to the comments of J.R. that the entire issue of looking at the reading habits of library patrons as specified in the Patriot Act was a big zero. That there had been ZERO requests on the part of the government to see what someone has been reading. Or what they have been accessing or who they have been communicating with via public library computers. The actual number of requests from the government to examine the library habits of U.S. persons [anyone living in the U.S. and under U.S. jurisdiction] was a grand total of two hundred in four years. That works out to about one request per week for a four year period. Is that excessive? And in most cases, the request was either turned down by librarians or not allowed by government officials. So this whole thing WAS over-blown, even though my initial figures were not correct. As I have said before, the villains of 9/11 used public library computers to communicate with one another and with confederates.

Well, you don't have to worry about someone "snooping" at the records of your reading habits anymore. Well, you really didn't have to worry in the first place!! Just would not happen unless you were a person of interest to the government. Much overblown and a lot of hysterical and unwarranted criticism to begin with!!

coolbert.