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   Odin Halvorson (indubitablyodin@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 11:35:57 JST Odin Halvorson

   * "When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

   * We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason."

   #Libraries #Librarians #Rwsist #Politics #Anarchist
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     Odin Halvorson (indubitablyodin@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 11:36:07 JST Odin Halvorson

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     * "We figured, what's the fun in just telling them there's nothing? What the feds always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause.

     * We developed a compliance policy just for the Patriot Act."
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     Odin Halvorson (indubitablyodin@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 11:36:26 JST Odin Halvorson

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     "We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee."

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     Odin Halvorson (indubitablyodin@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 11:36:40 JST Odin Halvorson

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     "The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request.

     Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting. "
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     Odin Halvorson (indubitablyodin@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 11:36:41 JST Odin Halvorson

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     "Well, WAS. The office of Patriot Act compliance would be assigned to whichever employee had just left our library. And gosh, it's just such a mess around here, you know."
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     Odin Halvorson (indubitablyodin@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 11:36:41 JST Odin Halvorson

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     Unfortunately nobody can remember the password to the system that has those records. So we have to get IT involved, which means running through more detailed security resets to make sure other systems aren't compromised. It should take a couple weeks.
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     Live, Laugh, Punch Nazis (20002ist@thepit.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 14:09:55 JST Live, Laugh, Punch Nazis

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     @indubitablyodin Evergreen sabotage advice: