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SF Library plans to install privacy-threatening RFID tags into books and...

Despite strong and unequivocal opposition by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, which has been consistent for more than 10 years, San Francisco Public Library plans to install what the two organizations, and others, consider to be privacy-threatening RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology into books and other materials that patrons use and borrow.

Citizens help stop SFMTA’s proposed service cuts to 19 Polk bus

San Francisco citizen activists and others appear to have succeeded – at least for now – in helping persuade the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Board not to approve the SFMTA staff’s plan to eliminate all three stops closest to the Main Library and Civic Center on the northbound 19 Polk bus line. The SFMTA had planned to eliminate the stops as part of the agency’s Seventh and Eighth Street Safety Project.

Library renovation plans: process and product problematic

"How to Run Roughshod Over Neighborhood Wishes" is now playing in San Francisco, as a swirling whirlwind of deception engulfs the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.