Library officials in a Chicago suburb (Naperville) plan to scan and record visitor fingerprints, purportedly to prevent unauthorized persons from using library computers.
""We take people's fingerprints because we think they might be
guilty of something, not because they want to use the library," said Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union in Illinois.
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~Do people with reading disorders feel guilty about libraries?
Posted by Cieciel at May 24, 2005 02:33 AM