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Abortion, 34

Actual damages, xxiii, 50

Adams, John Quincy, 184, 185

Administrative records, see Records
Advisory Commission on Intergovern-
mental Relations, 141

Alabama, State of, 188, 211
Alaska, State of, 34

ALERT System, 234n.

American Association of Motor Vehicle

Administrators, 207

American Federation of Information
Processing Societies (AFIPS), 29n.,
289

American Medical Association, 251
American National Standards Institute
(ANSI), 122n.

Anonymity, see Confidentiality
ANSI standard identification format,
xxxiii, 122n., 140

American Philosophical Society, 178n.,
182
American

Statistical Association,

188-189.
Archives, see Records

Arrests, see Records

Asia Minor, 1

Association for Computing Machinery,
42

Attorney General of the United States,
105, 138, 189, 236, 241, 242 ff., 261

Audit trails, xxv, 56, 62, 216
Automated personal data systems, 13,

14, 28; access to data in, ix, 19,
55-56, 60-63, 94-95, 96, 98, 121,
216; administrative, xxiv-xxvii, 48,
51, 53-64, 73, 78-87, 215-220, 247;
administrative used for statistical
reporting or research, xxi, xxvii,
xxix, 49, 59, 78-87; definition of,
49-50; employees of, xxiv, 54-55, 57,
98; establishment of, 51-52, 138-139;
for statistical-reporting and research,
xxi, xxix-xxxi, 26, 48, 50, 54, 59,
89-102; fragility of, 14-15, 168; man-
agers of, 13, 44-46, 80, 98, 216;
multijurisdictional, 21, 54, 98, 169,
214-215, 216-217, 219, 222; regula-
tion of, 42-43; research uses of,
78-87, 89-102; safeguards for, xx,
xxi, xxiv-xxxi, xxxiii, 43-45, 49, 50,
53-64, 73, 85-87, 97-102, 112, 121,
136, 215-220, 247, 296; secret, 41
social impact of, ix, xx, 12-30,
140-141, 167-168; see also Record
keeping

Automobile Manufacturers Association,
214

Baden-Württemberg, State of, 169
Bank records, see Records
"Bank Secrecy Act," 21n., 120

Bavaria, State of, 169

Billing systems, 13

Bill of Rights, 34, 241, 242
Birth records, see Records
Blackmail, 19

Blue Cross, 283

British Computer Society, 174
Burney, L. E., 282

California Bankers Association, 21n.
California Department of Corrections,
253

California Department of Education,
251

California State of, 34, 226

Canada, 174-175

Canadian Task Force on Privacy and

Computers, x, 175

Canal Zone, 208

Census Act, 89, 90n., 92, 104, 200-201
Census of Business and Manufactures,
82, 184n.

Census of Population, 4, 93; of 1790,

180-181; of 1800, 182-183; of 1810,
183-184; of 1820, 184-185; of 1830,
185-186; of 1840, 186-189; of 1850,
189-191; of 1860, 191-192; of 1870,
192-193; of 1880, 194-197; of 1890,
197-198

Census tract data, 293
Check-digit, 110n., 114
China, 1

Civil remedies, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, 44, 50,

55, 136

Civil Rights Act of 1964, 270

Class actions, xxiii, 50

Codes of ethics for data-processing per-
sonnel, 55, 141

Code of Fair Information Practice, xx,
xxiii, xxix, 41-44, 50, 52, 55, 59, 69,
75, 95-96, 100, 136; and the Fair
Credit Reporting Act, 66-71; and the
Freedom of Information Act, 64-66;
basic principles of, 41-42; violations
of, 50

Collective bargaining, 50
Colvin, James B., 183

Committee on Privacy (U.K.), 173-174
Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and

Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment,

and Rehabilitation Act of 1970, 105,
280

Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention
and Control Act of 1970, 280
Comptroller of the Currency, 69n.
Compulsory legal process, xix, xxi, xxvi,
xxxi, xxxii, 63, 67, 80, 91, 214-215;
protection from, 96-106, 102-106,
137

Computer-accessible files, 23, 50, 51, 56;
definition, 49

Computer programs, 13, 14, 21n, 22
Computers, effects on record keeping

practice, xix, 8, 12-30; and tele-
communications, v, viii;

Computer security, see Automated per-
sonal data systems

Confidentiality, 6; of census data, 4, 7n.,

178-201; of clinical information,
280; of Social Security data,
274-275; of statistical-reporting and
research data, xxxi, 87, 91-94, 100;
of the Social Security number, xxxv,
131, 133; of third-party recommen-
dations, 60-61; statutes, 89, 90n., 92,
104, 200-201, 279-280; under Public
Health Service Act, 279-280

Connecticut Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 182

Conseil d'Etat, 171

Consumer-reporting industry, 66-71

Contraception, 34

Cooley's anemia, 278

Correctional Decisions Information Pro-

ject (CDIP), 247-257

Council of State Governments, 141

Cour de Cassation, 171-172

Courts, and privacy rights, 34, 36-38, 43,

44

Cox, Samuel S., 194, 195
Coxe, Tench, 184

Credit bureaus, see Consumer-reporting
industry

Credit cards, 27, 131

Credit records, see Records

Criminal penalties, xxi, xxiii, 44, 50,

104, 136

Criminal history files, see Records

Criminal justice information systems,

222-246

Currency and Foreign Transactions Re-
porting Act, see "Bank Secrecy Act"

Data, see Personal data

Data collection requirements, 52

imposed by formal rule making, 139
Data files, documentation of, xxviii, 86,
95, 99

Data Inspectorate (Sweden), 170, 171
Data processing, xix, 12, 13-15, 22-23,
49, 57, 169; see also Automated
personal data systems

Data Protection Act (Hesse), 168-170
Data Protection Commissioner (Hesse),
169-170

Data subjects, see Rights of individuals
Data systems, see Automated personal
data system

Daunt, Jerome, 231, 239
Death records, see Records
DeBow, James D.B., 191, 198
Délégué à l'Informatique, 171

Department of Communications (Cana-
da), 174

Department of Justice (Canada), 174
Department of Justice (France), 171

Direct Mail Advertising

Association

(DMAA), 73, 291-292, 295

District of Columbia, 207

Documentation, see Data files

Domesday Book, 2

Dossiers, see Intelligence records

"Dragnet" effect, 16-17, 57, 212-213

Driver licenses, see Records

Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of

1972, 105-106

Due process, vi, 61, 75

Education Professions Development Act,
262-263

Elementary and Secondary Education
Act, 261

Employment records, see Records
Error measurement, xxviii, 83, 86
Ervin, Senator Sam J., Jr., 108, 238
Evaluation research, 91-92, 94, 134
Executive Order 9397, 116-117
Executive Order 10561, 286
Executive Order 11246, 269

Expungement rules, 51, 57, 217

Fair Credit Reporting Act, xxvii, 37,
66-71, 137

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
17-18, 216, 226, 229-235, 236, 245,
275

Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
of 1969, 264-265

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,
264

Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Dis-
ability Insurance Benefits (OASDI),
265-266

Federal Register, 58, 101

Federal Reports Act, 35, 84, 258,
270-272

Federal Reserve Board, 69n.
Federal Reserve System, 69n.
Federalist Papers, 179
Fingerprinting, 17, 24, 129, 226
Florida, State of, 226, 232
France, 1, 14, 171-172

Frankfurter, Justice Felix, 242

Freedom of Information Act, xxvii,

xxxii, 35-36, 64-66, 91, 137, 138,
258, 281; discretionary exemptions,
65-66, 103, 273-274

Gallatin, Albert, 183-184

Gannett, Henry, 194

Garfield, James A., 192, 193, 194

General Accounting Office (GAO), 90n.
General Education Provisions Act,

262-263, 283-284

General Services Administration (GSA),
283, 286

Georgia, State of, 188

German Federal Republic, 168-170
Great Britain, 173-174, 215, 289
Gregory v. Litton Systems, 243
Guam, 207

Hamburg, State of, 169
Hammurabi, Code of, 2

Health care delivery, 9, 24-28

Health Insurance for the Aged, see Medi-

care

Health Services & Mental Health Admin-

istration (HSMHA), 258n., 264, 282
Hollerith, Herman, 196-197

Hoover, Herbert, 201

Hruska, Senator Roman, 240

IBM Personal Identification Code, 210

Immigration and Nationality Act, 275
Inca civilization, 1-2

Income-tax returns, see Records
India, 1

Informed consent, xxii, xxvi, xxvii, xxix,
xxxiv-xxxv, 53, 56, 59, 65-66, 80-82,
85, 93, 98, 104, 131, 137, 138
Injunctions, xxi, 50, 136
Insurance, see Records

Integrated municipal information sys-

tems (IMIS), 20, 43n., 237-238
Intelligence records, see Records
Internal Revenue Act, 266
Internal Revenue Code, 118
Internal Revenue Service, 82, 83, 114,

117, 120, 131, 232, 259, 266, 268
Investigative-reporting companies, see
Consumer-reporting industry

Irving, John F.X., 230-231

Jackson, Andrew, 188

Jefferson, Thomas, 181, 183

Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v.
McGrath, 242

Kennedy, Joseph C.G., 190-191; 192
King John of England, 3

King's Remembrancer, 2

Knisely, Robert, 237-238
Kremel, Franklin M., 214

Labor unions, 50

Lamont v. Commissioner of Motor Ve-
hicles, 290n., 297

Land surveys, 2

Law Enforcement Assistance Adminis-

tration (LEAA), 222-225, 227 ff.

Lear, Tobias, 181

Leonard, Jerris, 229

Letters close, 3

Letters patent, 3

Licenses, see Records

Liquidated damages, xxiii, 50

Little Sisters of the Poor, 293

Local governments, xxiii, 21, 50,

58; using SSN, 125
Longitudinal studies, 92
Louisiana, State of, 188

Lower Saxony, State of, 169

Machine intelligence, 22

Madison, James, 179-180, 183
Magdalenian period, 1
Magna Carta, 2

Mailing lists, 71-73, 288-297

Mail' Preference Service, 73, 291-292,
296

Management information systems, ix, 6,

23, 82

Maryland Psychiatric Case Register, 218
Massachusetts, Commonwealth of, 188
Mass media, 168

Medical records, see Records
Medicare, v, 119, 266
Mercer County (N.J.), 89-90
Mesopotamia, 2

Michigan, State of, 226
Microfilm, 49, 50

Mitchell, John N., 223, 230, 231
Mitchill, Samuel Latham, 184
Morrill, Justin, 194

Motor Vehicles Departments, State,
15-17, 18, 73, 81, 203, 202-221
Multijurisdictional systems, see Auto-
mated personal data systems
Musée des Antiquités Nationales, 1
Mutuality, Concept of xx, 40-42, 60, 65

National Academy of Sciences, 244;
Project on Computer Databanks, x,
112n.

National Center for Health Statistics, 94,
264, 281, 282

National Commission on Individual
Rights, 240

National Conference of Commissioners

on Uniform State Laws, 141
National Conference of State Legislative
Leaders, 141

National Crime Information Center

(NCIC), 17-18, 216, 226-227, 229,
232-235, 236 ff.

National Driver Register, 15-17, 18, 120,
202-221

National Governors Conference, 141

National Health Surveys, 104, 263-264,
279

National Highway Traffic Safety Admin-

istration, 203

National Institute of Education
(DHEW), 258n., 259n., 260

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