Had a librarian in Ohio tell me something I still think about

Back in 2019 I was at the Medina County District Library helping a friend with a website about local zoning issues. A librarian named Carol walked over and said "you know they can see everything you post in these public terminals." She wasn't trying to scare me. She just wanted me to know. We ended up talking for 20 minutes about how the Patriot Act changed things after 2001. She said she'd seen people lose jobs over forum posts they made from library computers. Ever had a librarian give you a heads up like that?

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evan_dixon6713d ago

...and that actually reminds me of something that happened at my local library a few years back. I was just checking my email on one of their public computers, nothing weird, and a librarian came over and whispered "just so you know, the filters here log everything, even your personal stuff if you don't log out." I thought she was being paranoid until I later found out they had to hand over records to some lawyer for a custody case. Made me think twice about using those terminals for anything personal. Did you ever go back and talk to Carol again about what else she knew?

elliotr3913d ago

@evan_dixon67 actually the filters don't log stuff by default, the library IT person has to turn that on manually.