Yup and this is a thing you talk about in Library School! "You can save a patron's check-out history, in order to give them personalized suggestions, but then if the government comes asking 'hey who checked out The Anarchist Cookbook' with a warrant then you have that information to give. Soooooooo"
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when this became a problem for libraries after 9/11 they deleted the data and they still don’t collect it
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But when you've got an authoritarian wrecking ball, welp.