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DESCRIPTION:The Board of Library Trustees is in full swing of putting Radio Frequency 
 tracking tags in the Berkeley library books. Public Library means that we 
 should have some say about how our libraries are run. $650,000 was borrowed 
 through the city of Berkeley to purchase this very new and untried 
 technology from Checkpoint Systems. The interest on the loan will be 
 substantial.   20,000 books were thrown out (in privately hired dumpsters 
 for some reason). The tracking devices cost about 50 cents each book and 
 this throwing out was to save money so it is said.....  The books could 
 have been given to the Friends of the Library to sell. We don't even have a 
 list of what was thrown out.  These chips can hold 90 bits of information. 
 At the moment they are only holding 1 bit. This can be expanded later on.  
 There are health and privacy concerns also.  Come join Super Bold and help 
 figure out how to have the contract cancelled and the RFID taken out of our 
 Public Libraries.  RFID bracelets are now being used to track prisoners 
 within prisons and they are able to switch to Global Positioning systems 
 when people are outside of the prison! This creates an electronic fence 
 that can be easily moved around to keep prison work crews under control. 
 This is a new scary technology of the future.  Board of Library Trustees 
 meeting will be June 8th at the South Berkeley Senior Center at 7pm come 
 early to fill out a speaker card. Tell the Board what you think of all 
 this.  We will have a literature table there and a petition.  Come to the 
 Community Forum on June 20th at the South Berkeley Senior Center. When they 
 give us a time I'll post it on this Calendar.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/24/67213.php
SUMMARY:Berkeleyans Organizing for Library Defense (Super BOLD)
LOCATION:1471 Addison just below Sacramento St.  In the community room Gate on right 
 when facing the bay Red ribbon on gate and Office sign. Go through gate and 
 turn right at end of building. Go in door to right.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/24/67213.php
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