Mine, not so much, but I do have a problem with it in general
Top 5?
They do? Disturbing.
Are they checking for content, or for overdue fines (or both, likely).
I don’t really care becuase I don’t get much of anything from there anymore anyways.
Yes.
- Nicholas
Library records? Like what I checked out book-wise and if I returned it?
That does kinda bother me. It’s not that it even matters what I check out… I just don’t like the idea that I even have to bother thinking about having caution in regard to what I’m reading. I think that’s my business and whoever I tell it to, not the governments.
Oh, heck yeah.
nope. nothing to hide.
well, the library is ‘public’
Confess now Dan, before we go to the Springfield library!
…only a little, but okay if necessary.
No… I purposely checked out the Catcher in the Rye just so I’d be on the FBI list of potential serial killers.
I didn’t know they did.
Larry
I don’t think it’ll bother me… it’s true, there’s nothing to hide…
no, I just hope they don’t put my in jail for that book I lost three years ago….
it won’t bother people who have nothing to hide. yet, i still believe less government = stronger citizens
Nah. I’ve got nothing to hide. Maybe they can recommend some good new books for me.
I have nothing to hide, but it would bother me none-the-less.
Hmm, personally I don’t, but then I don’t really have anything to hide, or anything to be embarrassed of.
The whole idea of it bothers me just a little bit though.
Yes, only because they have better things to do with their time and my money. What is it going to help to know that I read gardening books and christin fiction?
I think the only people who have a problem with it have something to hide. I am sure with the tapping that has been going on, our phone line has been monitored at one point or another since we call Russia, Malaysia and other countries. We have nothing to hide so they are probably bored silly listening to our conversations. Doesn’t bother me in the least. I have no problem giving up a little privacy in the name of security. If it helps them find someone who is researching how to build explosives or by monitoring phone calls overseas they find evidence of a terrorist plot, then I am all for it!
No, they’d just think that I need a hobby.
Not at all. Good to know the government cares. I might care if I were there all the time checking out books on how to make bombs, cults, anti-government establishments and such.
they could check my records.. but they wouldn’t find anything!!! haha.. unless they go back in to like the early 90′s when i had to use the library to do reports for elementary school. so.. no it doesn’t bother me, they can check all they want.
now if they could check my internet logs.. thats a different story. =D
hell yes…
Uh, maybe. . . Since I just payed a $40 fine yesterday. Ouch. Apparently, some childrens’ book that belonged to them sat under Buddy’s bed all summer, when I was in the vomit stage of pregnancy. =/
haha they can if they want. I mean “oohhh Katie read Lily White and brought it back 5 days late!” If thats how they get their thrills go for it.
Nah, I don’t care… they will see I owe the library 16 bucks.. See.. how everyone who reads this will know too. haha!
Yes – It simply isn’t anyone else’s business!
no.
If I still went to the library… yes.
No it doesn’t bother me personally, but yes it is an invasion of privacy…isn’t there anything that we can do in our lives that it just our business?
They can do that/!?!!?!?
Have bigger things to worry about.
those with nothing to hide, hide nothing
Nope, what bothers me is that they can check EVRYTHING on you. Including watching you trough satelites.
no but i dont kno why they would be interested.
Well, in general, no… but the fact that I have checked out a bunch of weird books like “Che: A Revolutionary Life” and “Mein Kampf” makes me feel a bit uncomfy with the idea…
Not me personally, but I can see how it can be invasive.
its their library. therefore their records as well.
I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t like the idea that they will catalog and retain the information on me either.
I think that infringes on my right to freedom of speech. At least it infringes on my right to ‘listen’ to what one author or another has to say without government eavesdropping.
Yeah, I don’t like it.
L,r
it doesnt bother me much; though i wonder how much funds and resources are (wasted) going into that… hmm… come to think of it, i wonder when would be the next time i use a library again being out of school now… whoo…
The government can check anything they want, I have nothing to hide. However, I would hope that the government has better thing to do with their time than track some pitiful 37 year old churchy girl around and make lists of all the self help christian stuff I read. As the years progress and the end times draw near I think it will be in pour better interests if the government sticks to government business and not my personal reading habits.
It doesn’t bother me because it isn’t illegal to read books that are provided for by the government techincally. Though, I don’t like the thought of invasion of privacy either. So to wrap it all up, privacy yes, do I really care, no.
hope you had a great holidays! and hope you have a great and wonderful 2006!!!!!
Nah … I get to read books for free. [shrugs] I’ve got better things to stress over. Like … which black shoes I was going to wear today.
Why would they do something like that?
No. Privacy doesn’t exist anymore, and I’ve gotten used to it.
i have nothing to hide
only slightly. . .haha
They can go ahead and check my records, they won’t find anything interesting. Of course the fact that it’s a violation of my privacy bothers me.
Mine in particular? No, unless they care about my obsession for Nancy Drew and Sweet Valley High books. I haven’t checked out a book from the library in ages.
But in general, yes. What are they going to do next, check what videos we rent too?
Not in the least. How could my library records incriminate me … at all?!
Nope, doesn’t bother me. I have nothing to hide.
Oh, and dealing with the whole issue of privacy … if you HAVE something to hide, then how about not checking out the book, eh? Besides, I agree with someone else who said it, it’s the library’s records of me, so, legally, it’s not mine to have a ‘right to privacy’ to: the library gave me my card and they should have a RIGHT to check up on it. God bless, Shohna
Not at all–it’s quite a logical step inthe war on terror and the security measures that the war should entail
hmm….maybe this country is turning into Farenheit 451.. if they burn books…ill be sad!!!! and move to my own private island made out of soda cans. Anarchy!!!
nah
They don’t need to know how may issues of Methods in Enzymology I have checked out.
Yes, of course it bothers me.
yes, it does bother me. i didn’t know that the government did that, but it doesn’t surprise me, i guess.
It seems pointless to me, but I don’t care which way or another.
Hell Yes!!!!!!! I’m angry just thinking about it…..
Candy
Yes, absolutely. But, *ahem* only because I’ve owed the library like $80 in fines for lost books for a couple years now .. otherwise, I wouldn’t really care.
No, I don’t even care if they listen to my phone calls…
Aw, shucks. I didnt know the governement had any interest in me! I feel special
Personally I dont give a damn if they want to see if me, or other people, are learning how to make a bomb
Are you talking about them seeing what I’ve checked out of the library?
Yeah, I guess you are. I think it’s ludricous to worry about it.
So in other words, they have nothing better to do than to see which books I have overdue?
in principal, yes. idiots.
not really. maybe because i haven’t checked out a book from a public library in about 4 years…
Not me personally. I rarely go to the library.
uhh… yea. what happened to intellectual freedom?
the idea of people checking my library records doesn’t bother me persay; it’s the fact that it’s the government checking my records. what else will they be checking up on? what if they try to check on records that are more confidential? why do they need to unless it has to do with something specific, like chekcing over overdue fines or something relevant like that. they abuse their power too much. ask for permission first, at least.
Not really
I must say I haven’t heard of that, it’s kinda weird.
Not at all.
I do nothing dangerous, but yes, it does.
well, my first reaction is heck yes
but then I have nothing to hide. the government can’t do anything legally to me for signing out a library book. I have the right to read whatever the hell I want, whenever I want even if the book is called how to blow up the country and fight against freedom, democracy and g.w. bush all in one evening.
not at all
For some reason I don’t really care if they see what I read. If they want to know that I love Dean Koontz & trash romance or that I have kids who love horses and Spiderman, then fine with me. LOL!
Absolutely. I have nothing to hide, but I still don’t like the idea of the gov’t snooping into what I chose to read. Libraries are important to our freedom of speech and expression, so I see this as a huge violation of those rights as well as privacy.
There are a lot of other things that I would be much more worried about the government checking…not that I have anything to hide, but library records? Really?!
not at all
not really… i don’t go to the library unless its for school anyways! ha…
I go to the used bookstore… CHECK AWAY!!!!
no why would it?
oh no… guess i can’t be checking out Playboy and the Communist Manifesto then.
but seriously though.. what is it that people need to hide?
i’ll refer them to a good book if they want to read something good,hehe
all joking aside…they shouldn’t be looking into library records on which books i check out..
I work in a library and I think that what people read/check-out/surf on library computer should be private.
the government doing anything to disregard the privacy our country gives us is very disturbing. i want to move to europe.
hell yes. theyre not allowed to do that. OMGWTFNOWAYLOLZ
Nope. Have’t been to the library in eons.
Even if I had, it seems reasonable that those who have nothing to hide will not be offended.
it was exactly what i expected to happen over winter break.
no. i mean, it would if the library wasnt run on our taxes. but its theirs to run.
Well, not so much my personal library records. The worst thing I’ve ever checked out was a translated copy of Gilgamesh after we learned about it in my world history class. However, the fact that they have the power to look through library records (which implies that they have the power to look through quite a few other things) scares the shit out of me. If we spend our time in a paranoid frenzy, trying to stomp out every threat by taking away the freedoms that make us America in the first place, then we let the terrorists win. They want to destroy America? Well if you make the U.S. into a police state, then it’s not the same country, so it might as well have been destroyed.
Nope, not at all.
They do? Why? Luckily I can’t even remember the last time I went to a library-I buy my books outright. Plus, I have a toddler-who has time to read?
Libraries are funded by the government and therefore I really don’t mind if they want to know what I am or am not reading. When you go to the library and check out a book, you are borrowing and using materials for free (taxes aside) and should be content in that alone!
Anytime I can find and use a book for free instead of paying 20 bucks at the local Barnes and Noble I consider myself lucky! I mean, I just saved myself a bunch of money, and that’s always a good thing, right? So if the cost of borrowing a book from the library is that sometime in the future people can look up all of the books I have ever checked out, I really don’t care!
Then again, I am personally against public libraries carrying questionable subject matter such as “How To Build A Bomb In Three Easy Steps.” Anything else- fine, but seriously, who wants their tax money going to fund some wacko’s bright idea to blow up their children’s school?
Nope, I have nothing to hide!!!
Books are a major security threat!! Paris Hilton spreads blasphemous propaganda through her book about an heiress! Such as beginning line ” Praise Allah and destroy America. That’s Hot.”
It bothers me a little. Why do they need to know what I am reading?
Yeah, kind of… I mean, why do they need to check library records?
not really.
H
You have way too many comments here…that is just plain and simply NO fair.
they can help themselves. my library records are probably REALLY boring. zzzzzzz
No, there isn’t any pornography at my library.
not myself personally whats the goverments issue on what i read? nothing happens to me GOD bless Erica
yeah…why don’t they keep their nose somewhere else? the next thing they’re gonna do is tell me which book i should/n’t read
The question is “Why WOULD it bother me?”. After all, my life is an open book.
Pun intended.
I have nothing to hide.
Nope. Not at all.
yes. definitely
nope.
they do? not really i dont care.
Nope. I have absolutely nothing to hide.
yes.
nope
Yes. In fact, the government is planning to launch another version of the Patriot Act. Someone assassinate Bush. Now.
yes
I have nothing to hide with my library records.
But what will stop them if they can?
Not in the least. I don’t mind them listening to my phone calls either.
Hell yea. I got nothing to hide but still. Doesn’t the FBI have better things to do?
heck no…nothing to hide there…last time I was at the library was probably 3 years at a minimum…
i dont care…because I no longer go to the library now that the internet is so handy.
YES!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Not personally, but they should not do it.
they actually do such a thing? ok now i feel more embarrassed of all the overdue library books ive had haha
Yes. We say “for the safety of America” but where does it end?
It doesnt. Through fear, we will sign away all of our rights and realize when it is too late. If someone is determined enough nothing can stop them.
If someone wanted to blow up a plane, it would have happened by now. Nothing could stop them. Since it hasnt happened, it must mean…. No one wants to!
“I would sign away my freedom for a sense of safety” Quote from the news when NYC allowed random searches of bags on the subway. “Those that would sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither” Benjamin Franklin
180 degrees. Ben Franklin wasnt scared. We are scared. This is EXACTLY what they tried to protect us from.
If you want to be anonmymous on the internet, pay for it yourself. Learn UNIX, buy a mac, get an account on a server overseas. You are responisble for covering yourself if its important to you, no one else should have to do it, nor should you want them to.
Oh, Library records, not internet access.
Yes, it bothers me. The library is supposed to provide resources so you can learn. You should be afraid of learning? Maybe something hated and feared? And you should be afraid to learn about it because your name will go on a list?
Nope, no way.
Is this done? Something spurred this post…
they have no business checking my records.
Not really. (for me personally) But then again, what the hell??!
I don’t care about US GOV’T checking my library records, I just wish US GOV’T ‘d stay the fuck away from my tax records!
HOW DO YOU GET FOUR OF YOUR QUESTIONS AT THE TOP OF FEATURED? YOU ARE NOT INTERESTING IN THE LEAST BIT! XANGANS ARE DEFINITELY POD PEOPLE, YOU HAVE DUPED THEM INTO THINKING THAT YOU ARE IN FACT. C.S. LEWIS!
I BET THAT YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE C.S. STANDS FOR! AAAAAGGGGHHHH!
yes… libraries should be accessable without being tracked.
oh yeah
naw … I have nothing they would really care to know anyway!
It is hard for me to believe how many people do not care about privacy. The concept of personal liberty is fading away and this is a slippery slope. I pray that it does not turn into a landslide. Who will ultimately decide what you read? Hiding things has nothing to do with liberty, and why do so many believe that libraries are owned by the government? YOU have paid for them and built them with your hard earned dollars. They belong to you. Every tax dollar comes from you.
What IS surprising is all the brouhaha about GW spying on private citizens…isn’t anyone FAMILIAR with the “Patriot” Act
The library system in my county cannot track library records; as soon as a book is returned, there is no record of one having had it…unless they were lying to me all along. The government has no right to know what I read.
Yeah, it really does. Why would they feel the need to check the average persons Library records? I’ve nothing to hide. Unless they consider sci-fi grounds for making mass distruction bombs.
they better not be doing that…..that definately bothers me!
yeah.
Yes. I enjoy reading serial killer books.
That looks bad.
nope it’s a government office building they have the records anyway.
…. I Doesnt bother me because they wont find hardly anything I hate reading but I do it and plus I aint got nothing to hide!? well I am going *~!byebye*~! luv ya! Malory Marie Johnson
truly…I actually get a kick out of it..how can they keep up with that much info…they must have a filtering system to key in on specific titles and I bet the cat in the hat would be one…
jm
not really… what are they expecting to find? i wouldn’t care if they knew that i was taking out books on cooking or photography. but i would mind if i were taking out books on making bombs. in which case, i probably wouldn’t take out such books and then there wouldn’t be any home made bombs… soooo… let the government look at my library books. although… if people are looking for information on how to harm someone/something, they’d more likely search the net wouldn’t they?
very much so…but hell, i dont use the library any more.
I do feel it is a violation of privacy. However, if the reason is a matter of security then its ok with me.
I have a right to privacy. The government has no right to see if i am reading Nancy Drew, RL Stein, or Mao’s Little Red Book.
Fuck the fucking Patriot Act and all the assholes who support it and abuse it. And they ARE abusing it. Have no doubt about it.
HOW DO YOU GET FOUR OF YOUR QUESTIONS AT THE TOP OF FEATURED? YOU ARE NOT INTERESTING IN THE LEAST BIT! XANGANS ARE DEFINITELY POD PEOPLE, YOU HAVE DUPED THEM INTO THINKING THAT YOU ARE IN FACT. C.S. LEWIS!
I BET THAT YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE C.S. STANDS FOR! AAAAAGGGGHHHH!
well…I don’t see the big deal…I mean…if you read a book..you read it…o_Oso..? ~Lydia
It doesn’t bother me. I do not have any over due books. LOL
You know, the government has no business looking at what I do when I am in the library. I don’t understand how someone could even propose a law so STUPID and so in violation of peoples rights!
Not really…I mean considering why they are doing it (which you forgot to mention) it doesn’t bother me at all.
No. As long as they don’t try to use that as “evidence” that you’re an unstable person or will be prone to commit crimes
Yeah stuff like that bothers me… people checking out stuff about me that I’m unaware of…
doesn’t matter. they won’t find anything… though maybe i should start reading up on how to make homemade bombs and islamic religion. maybe that will scare them off. heh.
Yes! What if they find out that their copy of ”Curious George Visits the Library” is 9 years overdue? Oh, the embarrassment.
does it BOTHER me? yes
but SHOULD IT BE DONE?
definitely YES.
Mine not so much
Dude, check away, you’ll find cobwebs LOL Viva la internet
Yes……
It’s wrong because it is a major invasion of privacy. But I don’t mind for myself.
OMG its the Library Police!!! Stephen King was right!! AAAAAA
As long as they’re not prying into password-protected browsing, no.
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Immensely, it is a great violation of privacy.
Mine, not so much, but I do have a problem with it in general
Top 5?
They do? Disturbing.
Are they checking for content, or for overdue fines (or both, likely).
I don’t really care becuase I don’t get much of anything from there anymore anyways.
Yes.
- Nicholas
Library records? Like what I checked out book-wise and if I returned it?
That does kinda bother me. It’s not that it even matters what I check out… I just don’t like the idea that I even have to bother thinking about having caution in regard to what I’m reading. I think that’s my business and whoever I tell it to, not the governments.
Oh, heck yeah.
nope. nothing to hide.
well, the library is ‘public’
Confess now Dan, before we go to the Springfield library!
…only a little, but okay if necessary.
No… I purposely checked out the Catcher in the Rye just so I’d be on the FBI list of potential serial killers.
I didn’t know they did.
Larry
I don’t think it’ll bother me… it’s true, there’s nothing to hide…
no, I just hope they don’t put my in jail for that book I lost three years ago….
it won’t bother people who have nothing to hide. yet, i still believe less government = stronger citizens
Nah. I’ve got nothing to hide. Maybe they can recommend some good new books for me.
I have nothing to hide, but it would bother me none-the-less.
Hmm, personally I don’t, but then I don’t really have anything to hide, or anything to be embarrassed of.
The whole idea of it bothers me just a little bit though.
Yes, only because they have better things to do with their time and my money. What is it going to help to know that I read gardening books and christin fiction?
I think the only people who have a problem with it have something to hide. I am sure with the tapping that has been going on, our phone line has been monitored at one point or another since we call Russia, Malaysia and other countries. We have nothing to hide so they are probably bored silly listening to our conversations. Doesn’t bother me in the least. I have no problem giving up a little privacy in the name of security. If it helps them find someone who is researching how to build explosives or by monitoring phone calls overseas they find evidence of a terrorist plot, then I am all for it!
No, they’d just think that I need a hobby.
Not at all. Good to know the government cares. I might care if I were there all the time checking out books on how to make bombs, cults, anti-government establishments and such.
they could check my records.. but they wouldn’t find anything!!! haha.. unless they go back in to like the early 90′s when i had to use the library to do reports for elementary school. so.. no it doesn’t bother me, they can check all they want.
now if they could check my internet logs.. thats a different story. =D
hell yes…
Uh, maybe. . . Since I just payed a $40 fine yesterday. Ouch. Apparently, some childrens’ book that belonged to them sat under Buddy’s bed all summer, when I was in the vomit stage of pregnancy. =/
haha they can if they want. I mean “oohhh Katie read Lily White and brought it back 5 days late!” If thats how they get their thrills go for it.
Nah, I don’t care… they will see I owe the library 16 bucks.. See.. how everyone who reads this will know too. haha!
Yes – It simply isn’t anyone else’s business!
no.
If I still went to the library… yes.
No it doesn’t bother me personally, but yes it is an invasion of privacy…isn’t there anything that we can do in our lives that it just our business?
They can do that/!?!!?!?
Have bigger things to worry about.
those with nothing to hide, hide nothing
Nope, what bothers me is that they can check EVRYTHING on you. Including watching you trough satelites.
no but i dont kno why they would be interested.
Well, in general, no… but the fact that I have checked out a bunch of weird books like “Che: A Revolutionary Life” and “Mein Kampf” makes me feel a bit uncomfy with the idea…
Not me personally, but I can see how it can be invasive.
its their library. therefore their records as well.
I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t like the idea that they will catalog and retain the information on me either.
I think that infringes on my right to freedom of speech. At least it infringes on my right to ‘listen’ to what one author or another has to say without government eavesdropping.
Yeah, I don’t like it.
L,r
it doesnt bother me much; though i wonder how much funds and resources are (wasted) going into that… hmm… come to think of it, i wonder when would be the next time i use a library again being out of school now… whoo…
The government can check anything they want, I have nothing to hide. However, I would hope that the government has better thing to do with their time than track some pitiful 37 year old churchy girl around and make lists of all the self help christian stuff I read. As the years progress and the end times draw near I think it will be in pour better interests if the government sticks to government business and not my personal reading habits.
It doesn’t bother me because it isn’t illegal to read books that are provided for by the government techincally. Though, I don’t like the thought of invasion of privacy either. So to wrap it all up, privacy yes, do I really care, no.
hope you had a great holidays! and hope you have a great and wonderful 2006!!!!!
Nah … I get to read books for free. [shrugs] I’ve got better things to stress over. Like … which black shoes I was going to wear today.
Why would they do something like that?
No. Privacy doesn’t exist anymore, and I’ve gotten used to it.
i have nothing to hide
only slightly. . .haha
They can go ahead and check my records, they won’t find anything interesting. Of course the fact that it’s a violation of my privacy bothers me.
Mine in particular? No, unless they care about my obsession for Nancy Drew and Sweet Valley High books. I haven’t checked out a book from the library in ages.
But in general, yes. What are they going to do next, check what videos we rent too?
Not in the least. How could my library records incriminate me … at all?!
Nope, doesn’t bother me. I have nothing to hide.
Oh, and dealing with the whole issue of privacy … if you HAVE something to hide, then how about not checking out the book, eh?
Besides, I agree with someone else who said it, it’s the library’s records of me, so, legally, it’s not mine to have a ‘right to privacy’ to: the library gave me my card and they should have a RIGHT to check up on it.
God bless,
Shohna
Not at all–it’s quite a logical step inthe war on terror and the security measures that the war should entail
hmm….maybe this country is turning into Farenheit 451.. if they burn books…ill be sad!!!! and move to my own private island made out of soda cans. Anarchy!!!
nah
They don’t need to know how may issues of Methods in Enzymology I have checked out.
Yes, of course it bothers me.
yes, it does bother me. i didn’t know that the government did that, but it doesn’t surprise me, i guess.
It seems pointless to me, but I don’t care which way or another.
Hell Yes!!!!!!! I’m angry just thinking about it…..
Candy
Yes, absolutely. But, *ahem* only because I’ve owed the library like $80 in fines for lost books for a couple years now .. otherwise, I wouldn’t really care.
No, I don’t even care if they listen to my phone calls…
Aw, shucks. I didnt know the governement had any interest in me! I feel special
Personally I dont give a damn if they want to see if me, or other people, are learning how to make a bomb
Are you talking about them seeing what I’ve checked out of the library?
Yeah, I guess you are. I think it’s ludricous to worry about it.
So in other words, they have nothing better to do than to see which books I have overdue?
in principal, yes. idiots.
not really. maybe because i haven’t checked out a book from a public library in about 4 years…
Not me personally. I rarely go to the library.
uhh… yea. what happened to intellectual freedom?
the idea of people checking my library records doesn’t bother me persay; it’s the fact that it’s the government checking my records. what else will they be checking up on? what if they try to check on records that are more confidential? why do they need to unless it has to do with something specific, like chekcing over overdue fines or something relevant like that. they abuse their power too much. ask for permission first, at least.
Not really
I must say I haven’t heard of that, it’s kinda weird.
Not at all.
I do nothing dangerous, but yes, it does.
well, my first reaction is heck yes
but then I have nothing to hide. the government can’t do anything legally to me for signing out a library book. I have the right to read whatever the hell I want, whenever I want even if the book is called how to blow up the country and fight against freedom, democracy and g.w. bush all in one evening.
not at all
For some reason I don’t really care if they see what I read. If they want to know that I love Dean Koontz & trash romance or that I have kids who love horses and Spiderman, then fine with me. LOL!
Absolutely. I have nothing to hide, but I still don’t like the idea of the gov’t snooping into what I chose to read. Libraries are important to our freedom of speech and expression, so I see this as a huge violation of those rights as well as privacy.
There are a lot of other things that I would be much more worried about the government checking…not that I have anything to hide, but library records? Really?!
not at all
not really… i don’t go to the library unless its for school anyways! ha…
I go to the used bookstore… CHECK AWAY!!!!
no why would it?
oh no… guess i can’t be checking out Playboy and the Communist Manifesto then.
but seriously though.. what is it that people need to hide?
interesting article on this –> http://www.minglethis.com/entries/051221/privacy.html
thats normal in the library of congress.
i’ll refer them to a good book if they want to read something good,hehe
all joking aside…they shouldn’t be looking into library records on which books i check out..
I work in a library and I think that what people read/check-out/surf on library computer should be private.
the government doing anything to disregard the privacy our country gives us is very disturbing. i want to move to europe.
hell yes. theyre not allowed to do that. OMGWTFNOWAYLOLZ
Nope. Have’t been to the library in eons.
Even if I had, it seems reasonable that those who have nothing to hide will not be offended.
it was exactly what i expected to happen over winter break.
no. i mean, it would if the library wasnt run on our taxes. but its theirs to run.
Well, not so much my personal library records. The worst thing I’ve ever checked out was a translated copy of Gilgamesh after we learned about it in my world history class. However, the fact that they have the power to look through library records (which implies that they have the power to look through quite a few other things) scares the shit out of me.
If we spend our time in a paranoid frenzy, trying to stomp out every threat by taking away the freedoms that make us America in the first place, then we let the terrorists win. They want to destroy America? Well if you make the U.S. into a police state, then it’s not the same country, so it might as well have been destroyed.
Nope, not at all.
They do? Why? Luckily I can’t even remember the last time I went to a library-I buy my books outright. Plus, I have a toddler-who has time to read?
Libraries are funded by the government and therefore I really don’t mind if they want to know what I am or am not reading. When you go to the library and check out a book, you are borrowing and using materials for free (taxes aside) and should be content in that alone!
Anytime I can find and use a book for free instead of paying 20 bucks at the local Barnes and Noble I consider myself lucky! I mean, I just saved myself a bunch of money, and that’s always a good thing, right? So if the cost of borrowing a book from the library is that sometime in the future people can look up all of the books I have ever checked out, I really don’t care!
Then again, I am personally against public libraries carrying questionable subject matter such as “How To Build A Bomb In Three Easy Steps.” Anything else- fine, but seriously, who wants their tax money going to fund some wacko’s bright idea to blow up their children’s school?
Nope, I have nothing to hide!!!
Books are a major security threat!! Paris Hilton spreads blasphemous propaganda through her book about an heiress! Such as beginning line ” Praise Allah and destroy America. That’s Hot.”
It bothers me a little. Why do they need to know what I am reading?
Yeah, kind of… I mean, why do they need to check library records?
not really.
H
You have way too many comments here…that is just plain and simply NO fair.
they can help themselves. my library records are probably REALLY boring. zzzzzzz
No, there isn’t any pornography at my library.
not myself personally whats the goverments issue on what i read? nothing happens to me
GOD bless
Erica
yeah…why don’t they keep their nose somewhere else? the next thing they’re gonna do is tell me which book i should/n’t read
The question is “Why WOULD it bother me?”. After all, my life is an open book.
Pun intended.
I have nothing to hide.
Nope. Not at all.
yes. definitely
nope.
they do? not really i dont care.
Nope. I have absolutely nothing to hide.
yes.
nope
Yes. In fact, the government is planning to launch another version of the Patriot Act. Someone assassinate Bush. Now.
yes
I have nothing to hide with my library records.
But what will stop them if they can?
Not in the least. I don’t mind them listening to my phone calls either.
Hell yea. I got nothing to hide but still. Doesn’t the FBI have better things to do?
heck no…nothing to hide there…last time I was at the library was probably 3 years at a minimum…
i dont care…because I no longer go to the library now that the internet is so handy.
YES!!!!!!!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Not personally, but they should not do it.
they actually do such a thing? ok now i feel more embarrassed of all the overdue library books ive had haha
Yes. We say “for the safety of America” but where does it end?
It doesnt. Through fear, we will sign away all of our rights and realize when it is too late. If someone is determined enough nothing can stop them.
If someone wanted to blow up a plane, it would have happened by now. Nothing could stop them. Since it hasnt happened, it must mean…. No one wants to!
“I would sign away my freedom for a sense of safety” Quote from the news when NYC allowed random searches of bags on the subway. “Those that would sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither” Benjamin Franklin
180 degrees. Ben Franklin wasnt scared. We are scared. This is EXACTLY what they tried to protect us from.
If you want to be anonmymous on the internet, pay for it yourself. Learn UNIX, buy a mac, get an account on a server overseas. You are responisble for covering yourself if its important to you, no one else should have to do it, nor should you want them to.
Oh, Library records, not internet access.
Yes, it bothers me. The library is supposed to provide resources so you can learn. You should be afraid of learning? Maybe something hated and feared? And you should be afraid to learn about it because your name will go on a list?
Nope, no way.
Is this done? Something spurred this post…
they have no business checking my records.
Not really. (for me personally) But then again, what the hell??!
I don’t care about US GOV’T checking my library records, I just wish US GOV’T ‘d stay the fuck away from my tax records!
HOW DO YOU GET FOUR OF YOUR QUESTIONS AT THE TOP OF FEATURED? YOU ARE NOT INTERESTING IN THE LEAST BIT! XANGANS ARE DEFINITELY POD PEOPLE, YOU HAVE DUPED THEM INTO THINKING THAT YOU ARE IN FACT. C.S. LEWIS!
I BET THAT YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE C.S. STANDS FOR! AAAAAGGGGHHHH!
yes… libraries should be accessable without being tracked.
oh yeah
naw … I have nothing they would really care to know anyway!
It is hard for me to believe how many people do not care about privacy. The concept of personal liberty is fading away and this is a slippery slope. I pray that it does not turn into a landslide. Who will ultimately decide what you read? Hiding things has nothing to do with liberty, and why do so many believe that libraries are owned by the government? YOU have paid for them and built them with your hard earned dollars. They belong to you. Every tax dollar comes from you.
Happened to mention THAT in http://eminemsrevenge.com
What IS surprising is all the brouhaha about GW spying on private citizens…isn’t anyone FAMILIAR with the “Patriot” Act
The library system in my county cannot track library records; as soon as a book is returned, there is no record of one having had it…unless they were lying to me all along. The government has no right to know what I read.
Yeah, it really does. Why would they feel the need to check the average persons Library records? I’ve nothing to hide. Unless they consider sci-fi grounds for making mass distruction bombs.
they better not be doing that…..that definately bothers me!
yeah.
Yes. I enjoy reading serial killer books.
That looks bad.
nope it’s a government office building they have the records anyway.
…. I Doesnt bother me because they wont find hardly anything I hate reading but I do it and plus I aint got nothing to hide!? well I am going
*~!byebye*~! luv ya!
Malory Marie Johnson
truly…I actually get a kick out of it..how can they keep up with that much info…they must have a filtering system to key in on specific titles and I bet the cat in the hat would be one…
jm
not really… what are they expecting to find? i wouldn’t care if they knew that i was taking out books on cooking or photography. but i would mind if i were taking out books on making bombs. in which case, i probably wouldn’t take out such books and then there wouldn’t be any home made bombs… soooo… let the government look at my library books. although… if people are looking for information on how to harm someone/something, they’d more likely search the net wouldn’t they?
very much so…but hell, i dont use the library any more.
I do feel it is a violation of privacy. However, if the reason is a matter of security then its ok with me.
I have a right to privacy. The government has no right to see if i am reading Nancy Drew, RL Stein, or Mao’s Little Red Book.
Fuck the fucking Patriot Act and all the assholes who support it and abuse it. And they ARE abusing it. Have no doubt about it.
HOW DO YOU GET FOUR OF YOUR QUESTIONS AT THE TOP OF FEATURED? YOU ARE NOT INTERESTING IN THE LEAST BIT! XANGANS ARE DEFINITELY POD PEOPLE, YOU HAVE DUPED THEM INTO THINKING THAT YOU ARE IN FACT. C.S. LEWIS!
I BET THAT YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE C.S. STANDS FOR! AAAAAGGGGHHHH!
Posted 1/5/2006 at 8:24 AM by Lionsgrrr1
Clive Staples.
well…I don’t see the big deal…I mean…if you read a book..you read it…o_Oso..?
~Lydia
It doesn’t bother me.
I do not have any over due books. LOL
You know, the government has no business looking at what I do when I am in the library. I don’t understand how someone could even propose a law so STUPID and so in violation of peoples rights!
Not really…I mean considering why they are doing it (which you forgot to mention) it doesn’t bother me at all.
No. As long as they don’t try to use that as “evidence” that you’re an unstable person or will be prone to commit crimes
Yeah stuff like that bothers me… people checking out stuff about me that I’m unaware of…
doesn’t matter. they won’t find anything… though maybe i should start reading up on how to make homemade bombs and islamic religion. maybe that will scare them off. heh.
Yes! What if they find out that their copy of ”Curious George Visits the Library” is 9 years overdue? Oh, the embarrassment.
does it BOTHER me? yes
but SHOULD IT BE DONE?
definitely YES.
Mine not so much
Dude, check away, you’ll find cobwebs LOL Viva la internet
Yes……
It’s wrong because it is a major invasion of privacy. But I don’t mind for myself.
OMG its the Library Police!!! Stephen King was right!! AAAAAA
As long as they’re not prying into password-protected browsing, no.
yes
A little bit