Anonymous Internet Browsing at a Library

First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email

A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag.

Julia Angwin | September 10, 2015

Since Edward Snowden exposed the extent of online surveillance by the U.S. government, there has been a surge of initiatives to protect users’ privacy.
But it hasn’t taken long for one of these efforts — a project to equip local libraries with technology supporting anonymous Internet surfing — to run up against opposition from law enforcement.

Source: http://www.leblibrary.com/node/108

In July, the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire, was the first library in the country to become part of the anonymous Web surfing service Tor. The library allowed Tor users around the world to bounce their Internet traffic through the library, thus masking users’ locations.

<more at https://www.propublica.org/article/library-support-anonymous-internet-browsing-effort-stops-after-dhs-email; related links: https://libraryfreedomproject.org/torexitpilotphase1/ (Tor Exit Relays in Libraries: A New LFP Project) and http://www.leblibrary.com/node/108 (Kilton Public Library)>