LoveGravy: "Oh, so what the LAW says is OK, but if they use all this additional spyware that NOONE IS EVEN PROPOSING then it's bad? Um....ok... If you think Libraries are keeping keylogs, then you're whacked. In law school I worked in the library and KNOW the kind of antiquated stuff they have, and how technical the staff is."

I am whacked then. I am sorry your law library was in such sorry shape. You should come back to the library. They're much more aware than you realize. As for keystroke software...the whole idea is that you are not told about it.

LoveGravy: you obviously live in a world where power doesn't corrupt. I have seen power corrupt. Then again, so has your "police friend." Does he realize that it is against the law in many areas to run a police check for his personal business?

Public libraries are funded by public money. You want them to follow the Patriot Act. I don't. Why don't we vote on it?

Finally, do you really believe the FBI only wants a list of who used what machne and at what time? That would be a waste of time. It's often a list of people who didn't show their ID and gave any name they liked. In the past week alone I was able to sit down in three separate libraries without even giving any ID.