September 24, 2004

Technology and Privacy in the Library

To the Editor:

I would like to commend The Chronicle for its August 6 article "Talking Tags." The article dealt in a rational, balanced way with the topic of high-tech labels in library books. However, I would like to reassure readers that the use of radio-frequency identification, or RFID, in libraries is not a threat to privacy.

Lee Tien, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is cited in the article as being concerned that government officials could subpoena

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