NSA surveillance: how librarians have been on the front line to protect privacy
In 2005, four librarians in Connecticut fought a FBI request to use
national security letters to seize reading records and hard-drives,
forcing the government to drop the case.
Photograph: Bob Handelman/Alamy
‘Librarians were the original search engine’ and long before Edward
Snowden, thousands campaigned against the government violating privacy
rights
