Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual's background. Finance companies are acceptable; lawyers looking for ammunition in a divorce case are not. The FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and other Government agencies, which had easy access to data banks, must now have a court order to peek at an individual's dossier (except for checks on prospective employees). Credit-bureau officials who knowingly supply data to unauthorized clients risk a year in jail and a $5,000 fine. Says Senator William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat, who husbanded the bill through Congress: "At some point the individual's right to privacy must take precedence...
...plaintiffs spoke at a May 5 memorial service protesting the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State University. The suit alleges that police made photographs and wrote a surveillance report on the event and entered them into a dossier it maintains on the plaintiffs...
...dossier contains no information on illegal or criminal activity by the plaintiffs, but only information on lawful political activities...
...Dossier Dictatorship. More recently, Ervin has criticized two institutions that most conservatives hold dear: the FBI and the U.S. Army. He accuses both of snooping on Americans in ways that endanger First Amendment freedoms of speech, thought and privacy. "If we are going to be a free society," says Ervin, "the Government is going to have to take some risks; they can't put everyone under surveillance...
Last week Ervin's subcommittee began hearings on his biggest concern to date: how to safeguard the political liberties of U.S. citizens from what one witness called "dossier dictatorship"-the vast files that are now being computerized by assorted snoopers, ranging from credit bureaus to Army agents, who allegedly concentrate their spying on war protesters. Dramatizing his worries about computers, Ervin displayed two props: a 1,245-page Bible and a two-inch-square piece of microfilm, each containing 773,746 words. "Someone remarked that this meant the Constitution could be reduced to the size of a pin-head...