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May 22, 2005
Fingerprinting . . . @ your library?!
The Washington Post reported on Friday that a library in Naperville Ill. intends to install 130 fingerprint scanners on library computers. Why?
Library officials said they wanted to tighten computer access because many people borrow library cards and pass codes from friends or family to log on. The technology also will help the library implement a new policy that allows parents to put filters on their children's' accounts . . .
Of course the ACLU is all over this like lint on black, responding to the tactic by saying that "we take people's fingerprints because we think they might be guilty of something, not because they want to use the library." Well, that issue aside, way to go for making libraries about as inviting and easy to use as a trip through airport security screening.
Posted on May 22, 2005 8:00 AM to misc news