Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-the-records-you're-looking-for dept.

Skyshadow writes "Vermont Bookseller Bear Pond Books has announced that they will purge their sales records at the request of customers . This would effectively sidestep typically insideous a provision of the PATRIOT Act which allows government agencies to secretly seize sales records. The store's co-owner, Michael Katzenberg, put it this way: 'When the CIA comes and asks what you've read because they're suspicious of you, we can't tell them because we don't have it... That's just a basic right, to be able to read what you want without fear that somebody is looking over your shoulder to see what you're reading.' Now if only certain other booksellers would show that same conscience, we might have something here."

6 of 469 comments (clear)

  1. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Book records purge YOU!
    i bet you totaly saw that one coming

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If that were "In America, book records purge YOU!", you wouldn't be far off from the (approaching) truth. Scary, and with folks like Ashcroft around it will become a reality.

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by FearUncertaintyDoubt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...oh, wait, the same thing happens here now, thanks to the PATRIOT Act. Never mind. Let's all toast our vodka to Comrades Bush and Ashcroft!

    1. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Robber+Baron · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Not to mention Tom Ridge, new head of the american KGB! KGB you ask? Why yes...go find out what KGB stood for. Now translate it.

      --

      You're using her as bait, Master!

  4. IN SOVIET RUSSIA ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    patriot purges YOU!