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Libraries promise to destroy user data to avoid threat of government surveillance

Posted on November 30, 2016June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Sam Thielman reports:

Public and private libraries are reacting swiftly to the election of Donald Trump, promising to destroy user information before it can be used against readers and backing up data abroad.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) changed its privacy policy on Wednesday to emphasize its data-collection policies.

Read more on The Guardian.

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