{"id":257,"date":"2004-04-30T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/04\/30\/more-on-the-usa-patriot-act\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:37","slug":"more-on-the-usa-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/04\/30\/more-on-the-usa-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the USA PATRIOT Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a175'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must have misunderstood something in this story&#8230;.&nbsp; The headline in the Post says: &#8220;<font face=\"Arial,Helvetica\" size=\"+1\">Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act.&#8221;&nbsp; The ACLU filed a lawsuit against the act, &#8220;<\/font>but the case was kept under seal to avoid violating secrecy rules contained in the USA Patriot Act, the ACLU said.&#8221; <font face=\"Arial,Helvetica\" size=\"+1\">Sounds<br \/>\nlike&nbsp; the provision that you can&#8217;t tell patrons when their library<br \/>\nrecords have been subpoenad under the law.&nbsp; (Source; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/04\/29\/patriot_act_designed.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\nUpdate (4\/30\/04); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llrx.com\/features\/internetsignup.htm\">LLRX has an article<\/a><br \/>\nabout libraries may risk getting sued for revealing records in response<br \/>\nto PATRIOT Act subpoenas. Evidently AOL revealed a customer&#8217;s records<br \/>\nand they are now being sued. &#8220;<\/font><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\"> It turns out that AOL apparently did not closely examine<br \/>\n        the search warrant, which was invalid.&#8221; (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bespacific.com\">beSpacific<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have misunderstood something in this story&#8230;.&nbsp; The headline in the Post says: &#8220;Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act.&#8221;&nbsp; The ACLU filed a lawsuit against the act, &#8220;but the case was kept under seal to avoid violating secrecy rules contained in the USA Patriot Act, the ACLU said.&#8221; Sounds like&nbsp; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}