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From: sdo@u1100a.UUCP (Scott Orshan)
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Subject: Re: social security numbers
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Date: Fri, 4-May-84 16:47:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  4 16:47:31 1984
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"Thank you ..."

And, thank you, Robert Binstock for your thanks.

Just to add a refreshing note to my previous article about the
fear of personal information being passed around freely -

After I went home, I read this in last Sunday's N.Y. Times:

Title: "F.B.I. Shelves Plan to Expand Its Computer Files"

  "The Federal Bureau of Investigation has shelved a proposal
that would have expanded its national computerized files to
include information about people who are considered suspicious
but not wanted for crimes.

...

  Kier T. Boyd, a senior official in the F.B.I.'s technical
services division, said in a recent interview that the bureau
hoped to sign a contract by the end of September to carry out
the study [of the National Crime Information Center, and which
services it should be providing in the year 2000] and that
he expected it would require 18 months to two years to complete.
  "We want to take a look at the social and privacy impacts of
the N.C.I.C.," Mr. Boyd said.
  The study will also examine the adequacy of the system's
security arrangements and the complex question of how it can
guarantee the accuracy of the information it transmits.

...

  ... While William H. Webster, Director of the Bureau, has not
said publicly whether he wants the project to go forward, he
has indicated that he has serious reservations about it.
[ "it" is the original shelved proposal, not the NCIC study ]
  In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on
Security and Terrorism on March 14, for example, Mr. Webster
said he did not believe "that the mere capability is a
justification in itself for putting names and facts into a
massive computer file.""

		Seeing that made me happy
		Scott Orshan
		Bell Communications Research
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