libraryadvocates: Library advocates are encouraged to...

libraryadvocates:

Library advocates are encouraged to participate in the “WE TOLD YOU SO…Proven Use of the “Library Provision,” an interactive session on surveillance issues that will be held during the 2013 Annual American Library Association. The session will take place in the McCormick Place Convention Center (in room S501BCD) on Sunday, June 30, 2013, 3:00-4:00p.m.

Michael German, senior policy counsel, of the American Civil Liberties Union, will teach participants about the latest wholesale use of Section 215 by the Administration to get cell phone records from cell carriers and how those carriers just turned over all subscriber phone records.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to hear about surveillance of AP Wire Service reporters, the search for whistleblowers and the implications for the First Amendment and Freedom of the Press of these activities.