. >> i'm peter warfield, library users association. privacy threatening our fid is unfortunately on the way to being approved for funding at san francisco public library at the commission meeting this thursday, day after tomorrow. the library commission may approve its budget and buried within it is this technology, which is toxic to patron privacy. we ask you and the public to oppose this step and ask this body to reject funding for that project when you get it later this year, as you did about 12 years ago. last week i mentioned a letter sent by the aclu that they sent to luis herrera, our city librarian leaving at the a end of next month. "dear mr. herrera, the electronic frontier foundation and aclu of northern california jointly submit this letter." they go on to talk about having opposed this in the past and we oppose the use because of the significant privacy and free speech concerns. they talk about the previous opposition and extensive research findings about privacy risk and go on to say, we're unaware of any significant chan

i'm peter warfield, executive director of library users association. and i'm here to talk about something completely different. and that is about the san francisco public libraries plans and movement towards approving a multimillion dollar expense and that's to install a technology that raises serious privacy concerns for every library user. this is being done with no hearing, as there was 12 years ago when a similar plan was ultimately rejected by the supervisors. a letter from the american civil liberty unions of northern california has strongly opposed this move, but our city librarian chose not to share that letter for about nine months. he did not share that with the library commission. some 12 years ago, a similar plan was forwarded to the supervisors and your body, as supervisor peskin may remember, rejected that plan two years in a row because of the privacy concerns of our group and many other groups including at that time aclu and eff. we asked you to keep an eye on the expected request for funding and reject it when it comes to you later thi