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Cilip says security services can demand records. Spooks have powers to access information on books borrowed and websites accessed, writes Kim Thomas.
The security services and the police have the right to demand access to library records, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip) has discovered.
Under anti-terror legislation currently in force, MI5 or police officers investigating terrorism or other serious crimes in England and Wales have the right to see information on books borrowed or internet sites accessed by certain library users, a barrister told Cilip.
They can also mount surveillance operations in libraries if they believe that national security is at risk, or in the interests of public safety, or to prevent or detect crime.
The advice to Cilip comes from human rights barrister James Eadie, and is based on four separate pieces of legislation.
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Terrorism Act 2000 allow the police to apply for an order authorising access to library records.
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) allows surveillance operations to be carried out, and the Intelligence Services Act 1994 allows the Secretary of State to issue a warrant authorising ...
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