Library card? Check. Fingerprint? Really?

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Library card? Check. Fingerprint? Really?
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Citing security, Naperville libraries will make patrons prove their
identities before using computers. Privacy advocates fear misuse of
the data.

By James Kimberly Tribune staff reporter Published May 20, 2005

Before long, patrons wanting to use Naperville Public Library System
computers without a hassle will have to prove their identity with a
fingerprint.

The three-library system this week signed a $40,646 contract with a
local company, U.S. Biometrics Corp., to install fingerprint scanners
on 130 computers with Internet access or a time limit on usage.

The decision, according to the American Library Association, makes
Naperville only the second library system in the country to install
fingerprint scanners.

Library officials say the added security is necessary to ensure
people who are using the computers are who they say they are.

Officials promise to protect the confidentiality of the fingerprint
records.

But with Congress contemplating an expansion of the USA Patriot Act,
which gives federal authorities access to confidential library
records, and cameras watching the streets some Chicagoans drive or
the sidewalks they stroll, privacy advocates are concerned about yet
another erosion of personal liberty.

"We take people's fingerprints because we think they might be guilty
of something, not because they want to use the library," said Ed
Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
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