Library Freedom Project
The Free Library Project is an endeavour to place relays and exit nodes of the Tor anonymity network in public libraries. Its pilot project (in July 2015) enabled the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire to become the first library in the United States to provide anonymous web browsing to its patrons. This service was put on hold in early September, however, when the library received an e-mail from the local police department at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security highlighting the criminal uses of the Tor network, whereupon the library began reconsidering the deployment from a public relations perspective. The library board of trustees shall vote on September 15, 2015 whether to renew the anonymity service. [1][2]
The Free Library Project is funded by the Knight Foundation.[3]
