Federal Data Banks and Constitutional Rights: A Study of Data Systems on Individuals Maintained by Agencies of the United States Government, Summary and Conclusions Prepared by the Staff of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of ... , 1974

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Page 39 - ... (6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy ; (7) investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes except to the extent available by law to a party other than an agency...
Page 39 - ... (5) inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency; (6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy...
Page 39 - ... (3) Except with respect to the records made available under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, each agency, on request for identifiable records made in accordance with published rules stating the time, place, fees to the extent authorized by statute, and procedure to be followed, shall make the records promptly available to any person.
Page 43 - Department of Energy Department of Health. Education, and Welfare Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of the Interior Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of State Department of Transportation Department of the Treasury...
Page 21 - Judiciary, Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. Invasions of privacy. Government agencies. Hearings, 89th Cong., 1st sess., Feb.
Page 39 - Nothing in this section authorizes withholding of information or limiting the availability of records to the public except as specifically stated in this section, nor shall this section be authority to withhold information from Congress.
Page 4 - Report of the Task Force on the Storage of and Access to Government Statistics, Executive Office of the President, Bureau of the Budget, October, 1966, p.
Page 39 - Public information ; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings (a) Each agency shall make available to the public information as follows : (1) Each agency shall separately state and currently publish in the Federal Register for the guidance of the public — (A) descriptions of its central and field organization and the established places at which, the employees (and in the case of a uniformed service, the members) from whom, and the...
Page 19 - The Special Subcommittee on Invasion of Privacy of the House Committee on Government Operations held a series of hearings relating to threats to Invade the privacy of individual and business firms in 1965 and 1966, and has continued its investigations in these matters.
Page 9 - ... we would like to know just what information would be stored in a national data center; who would have access to it; who would control the computers; and, most importantly, how confidentiality and individual privacy would be protected.

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