{"id":7040,"date":"2017-12-25T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2026-06-16T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:25:09","slug":"analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-analog-libraries-were-private-searches-for-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-analog-libraries-were-private-searches-for-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (7\/21): Analog Libraries Were Private Searches for Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

When our analog parents searched for information, that activity took place in libraries, and that was one of the most safeguarded privacies of all. When our digital children search for information, their innermost thoughts are instead harvested wholesale for marketing. How did this happen?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking at one particular profession of the analog world that was absolutely obsessed with the privacy of its patrons, it was the librarians. Libraries were where people could search for their darkest secrets, were it literature, science, shopping, or something else. The secrecy of libraries were downright legendary.<\/p>\n

As bomb recipes started appearing on the proto-Internet in the 1980s \u2014 on so-called BBSes<\/a> \u2014 and some politicians tried to play on moral panics, many of common sense were quick to point out, that these \u201ctext files with bomb recipes\u201d were no different than what you would find in the chemistry section of a mediocre-or-better library \u2014 and libraries were sacred. There was no moral panic to play on as soon as you pointed out that this was already available in every public library, for the public to access anonymously<\/p>\n

So private were libraries, in fact, that librarians were in collective outrage when the FBI started asking libraries for records of who had borrowed what book \u2013 and that\u2019s how the infamous warrant canaries<\/a> were invented. Yup, by a librarian, protecting the patrons of the library. Librarians have always been the profession defending privacy rights the hardest \u2013 in the analog as well as the digital.<\/p>\n

In the analog world of our parents, their Freedom of Information was sacramount: their innermost thirst for learning, knowledge, and understanding. In the digital world of our children, their corresponding innermost thoughts are instead harvested wholesale and sold off to market random trinkets into their faces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just what our digital children successfully studied that\u2019s up for grabs. In the terms of our analog parents, it\u2019s what they ever went to the library for. It\u2019s what they ever considered<\/em> going to the library for. In the world of our digital children, everything they searched for is recorded \u2014 and everything they thought of searching for but didn\u2019t<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Think about that for a moment: something that was so sacred for our analog parents that entire classes of professions would go on strike to preserve it, is now casually used for wholesale marketing<\/em> in the world of our digital children.<\/p>\n

Combine this with the previous article about everything you do, say, and think being recorded for later use against you, and we\u2019re going to need a major change in thinking on this very soon.<\/p>\n

There is no reason our children should have less Freedom of Information just because they happen to live in a digital environment, as compared to the analog environment of our parents. There is no reason our digital children shouldn\u2019t enjoy Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, it can be argued that the Internet search engines are private services who are free to offer whatever services they like on whatever terms they like. But there were private libraries in the analog world of our parents, too. We\u2019ll be returning to this \u201cit\u2019s private so you don\u2019t have a say\u201d concept a little later in this series.<\/p>\n

Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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