Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard people tend to be successful people.You have a pretty good dossier on people becausetheir salaries are published publicly," he says...
...genes have been screened, the results could find their way into computer banks. Without legal restrictions, these personal revelations might eventually be shared among companies and government agencies. Just like a credit rating or an arrest record, a DNA analysis could become part of a person's permanent electronic dossier. If that happens, one of the last vestiges of individual privacy would disappear...
...France, where Heidegger's concepts of "authenticity" and liberty powerfully influenced the Existentialists, many intellectuals have rushed to his defense. Philosopher Francois Fedier called Farias' charges a "misinterpretation," while Author Andre Glucksmann, although not a supporter of Heidegger's ideas, mockingly compared the work to a "police dossier...
...year, he went to work at the regulatory affairs executive office at the OMB, then returned to Justice to head the Antitrust Division. Impressed by his brainy efficiency, Meese recommended him to the President for the federal judiciary in 1986. There is only one quirk in the Ginsburg dossier: during his freshman year at Cornell, he dropped out and became a partner in a computer dating service, Operation Match, in Cambridge, Mass. He sold his share in the business after a couple of years and returned to school several thousand dollars richer...
What privacy rights apply to this vast dossier of data? When can it be searched, shared or published? And if the information it contains is outdated, injurious or just plain false, what redress does an individual have? Not much, it turns out. Ostensibly, citizens are protected from overzealous use of the Government's computer files by the Privacy Act of 1974. It requires the Government to obtain the consent of individuals if an agency collects information on them for one purpose and then uses it for another. In most cases, however, the agency merely has to publish a notice...