Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens: Report, Volume 10Report on the use of automated personal data bases and information systems in the USA and the social implications thereof, with particular reference to the question of confidentiality - comments on the effects of computer-based records maintenance, the legal aspects of data collecting and research systems, the use of the social security number as a universal identifier, etc., and includes recommendations regarding draft legislation. Annotated bibliography pp. 298 to 330. |
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... centers on its implications for personal privacy , and understandably so if privacy is considered to entail control by an individual over the uses made of information about him . In many circumstances in modern life , an individual must ...
... centers on its implications for personal privacy , and understandably so if privacy is considered to entail control by an individual over the uses made of information about him . In many circumstances in modern life , an individual must ...
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... centers , and measuring the effectiveness of a fragmented and increasingly expensive educational system . The introduction of the disciplined methods of computer - assisted management gave program managers new tools for " auditing " the ...
... centers , and measuring the effectiveness of a fragmented and increasingly expensive educational system . The introduction of the disciplined methods of computer - assisted management gave program managers new tools for " auditing " the ...
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... center had to be reorganized as a manual operation in order to clear up an enormous backlog of emergency allotment payments . The disruption of human lives resulting from the inability to use the computer - based payments system was ...
... center had to be reorganized as a manual operation in order to clear up an enormous backlog of emergency allotment payments . The disruption of human lives resulting from the inability to use the computer - based payments system was ...
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... Center ( NCIC ) is one example . The NCIC is a computerized clearinghouse of information about wanted persons , stolen property , and criminal history records3 that will eventually provide criminal justice agencies throughout the United ...
... Center ( NCIC ) is one example . The NCIC is a computerized clearinghouse of information about wanted persons , stolen property , and criminal history records3 that will eventually provide criminal justice agencies throughout the United ...
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... centers on the possibility of unauthorized access to a central data bank for purposes of blackmail or commercial exploitation ( such as the clandestine copying of a list of names and addresses ) , the purely technical difficulties that ...
... centers on the possibility of unauthorized access to a central data bank for purposes of blackmail or commercial exploitation ( such as the clandestine copying of a list of names and addresses ) , the purely technical difficulties that ...
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administrative automated personal administrative personal data administrative records amended American application Association assure authority automated personal data Bureau census Chapter code of fair Committee computer-based computerized confidentiality Congress consumer-reporting agency court data banks data processing Department DHEW disclose disclosure Education effects employees established exclusively for statistical fair information practice Federal agencies Freedom of Information identifiable form individual data subjects individual's individually identifiable Information Act information systems institutions intelligence records issues law enforcement legislation license ment National National Driver Register NCIC NYSIIS obtain Office operation organization maintaining personal data systems personal privacy personal-data protection public notice purposes recommend record-keeping practices record-keeping systems regulations reporting and research reporting or research request research systems response safeguard requirements Secretary Social Security Act Social Security Administration Social Security number specific standard universal identifier statistical reporting statistical-reporting and research statute tion
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Page 32 - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Page 260 - Education for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several states and territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 65 - ... (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 274 - Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law...
Page 105 - ... to protect the privacy of individuals who are the subject of such research by withholding from all persons not connected with the conduct of such research the names or other identifying characteristics of such individuals. Persons so authorized to protect the privacy of such individuals may not be compelled in any Federal, State, or local civil, criminal, administrative, legislative, or other proceedings to identify such individuals.
Page 271 - ... (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 31 - As every man goes through life he fills in a number of forms for the record, each containing a number of questions. . ..There are thus hundreds of little threads radiating from every man, millions of threads in all.
Page 123 - Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population...
Page 123 - Union reports that he paid his dues, (Our report on his Union shows it was sound) And our Social Psychology workers found That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
Page 123 - This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint, For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. Except for the War till the day he retired He worked in a factory and never got fired, But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc. Yet he wasn'ta scab or odd in his views, For his Union...