Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels”

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/05/18/librarians-are-waging-a-quiet-war-against-international-data-cartels

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/15657357

Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at risk

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other_cat@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Glad the librarians care.

coffeeClean@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 2y

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.

Gemini24601@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

At first I thought it said libertarians lol

applepie@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y

Those guys too busy larping corpo propaganda and they love love their private sector daddies