Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!hobbit.gandalf.ca!alayne From: alayne@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Alayne McGregor) Subject: Re: Lifestyle Information (Library Records) Message-ID: <1991Apr17.215136.5150@hobbit.gandalf.ca> Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd., Nepean, Ontario References: Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 21:51:36 GMT Lines: 16 In article peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Homosexuality is >against the law in some states: should a bookstore sell lists of people who >bought "suspect" books to the local law enforcement agencies? More to the point: the automated circulation systems used by most larger university/college and public libraries could be used to track and profile readers of certain types of "suspect" books. Librarians are very aware of this problem; the vendors of these systems generally ensure that once a book is returned (and any fines are paid), that the connection between book and patron is severed. Only the fact that the book was taken out n times is saved. Alayne McGregor alayne@gandalf.ca