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That said, there are many benefits to using the Tor network as well.

Protesters outside the Lebanon Public Library gathered to show support for running a Tor relay at the New Hampshire library While it is highly advised that you do not set up a Tor exit node from your home or on your home internet connection, libraries are protected from legal threats by safe harbor provisions. The Tor browser isn’t illegal, so what’s the problem? The Tor browser masks a user’s identity so well that it is a often used to hide pornography, drug trafficking, and other nefarious illegal activity. While the Tor browser can be used by anyone, an exit relay allows users to bounce their internet traffic through the library, making it nearly impossible to identify the starting point of the user. Tor stands for The Onion Router because the security and anonymity it provides masks the user’s IP like the layers of an onion. In Lebanon, New Hampshire, a small public library ( Kilton Public Library) partnered with the Library Freedom Project (LFP) to set up a Tor relay through their library. I read about one library a few months ago that took an unconventional step to protect their users’ data, resulting in the Department of Homeland Security becoming involved. For all the good collecting data can do, it must be our first priority to protect our users’ data. Since 1939, privacy has been one of the core values of the American Library Association. Is one user reading a lot of Stephen King? Maybe an email is sent when the latest Stephen King novel is ready for circulation. What data can we collect? Why would we want to collect data? It’s such a murky area because knowing what our users are doing, reading and researching can allow us to better gear our service back to those users. We deal with issues around privacy all the time. In libraries, the idea of privacy is not new. Laws surrounding privacy can become muddied when new technology is introduced into the mix and laws enacted years ago may not synergize with the technology we have today. We live in an age of very grey digital privacy laws. It’s been a pretty interesting past few weeks when it comes to digital privacy.