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Title
- Main Title Citizen Control Over Records Held by Third Parties
Creator
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Author: Collins, Sarah PCreator Type: PersonalCreator Info: Government Division
Publisher
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Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.Place of Publication: Washington D.C.
Date
- Creation: 1978-12-08
Language
- English
Description
- Content Description: The United States has become an information society. Government at every level and private industry have been collecting and using more personal information about individuals in the last several years than ever before. The Congress has been aware of this trend, and of the potencia1 for misuse of the information so collected; it has enacted several laws that protect the personal privacy of individuals, and respect the confidentiality of the information maintained about individuals by third parties. In this report, several privacy laws are summarized, and key provisions of each are compared, in order to make individual citizens aware of their rights , responsibilities and remedies under the law.
- Physical Description: 103 pages.
Subject
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Civil liberties
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Right of privacy - Law and legislation
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Law
Collection
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Name: Congressional Research Service ReportsCode: CRSR
Institution
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Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents DepartmentCode: UNTGD
Resource Type
- Report
Format
- Text
Identifier
- CRS Report Number: 78-255
- Accession or Local Control No: 78-255 1978-12-08
- Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metacrs8139