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...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 And if the information it contains is outdated, injurious or just plain false, what redress does an individual have?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...
...countries at war. The Swedish arms firm Bofors was reported last year by local newspapers to have sold several hundred Robot 70 portable ground-to-air missiles to Iran between 1983 and 1985. Last month the Belgian daily Le Soir reported that Swedish customs officials had sent a bulky dossier to their counterparts in Brussels. The file contained details of the shipment of Swedish war materiel destined for Iran through the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Last week Martin Ardbo, the managing director of Bofors weapons division, abruptly resigned. This week the Swedes are expected to publish the results...
...began offering Shape Up, one of several privately developed programs that are being adopted by educational systems around the nation. Students take six fitness tests and keep a food-and-drink diary for three days. The information is fed into a computer, which prints out an individual 20-page dossier, complete with sketches of where body fat is deposited plus diet and exercise recommendations. To keep participants motivated, Shape Up, which is funded by All American Gourmet, dishes out insignia T shirts, shorts and headbands...
Instead of supervising the old way, by peering over an employee's shoulder from time to time and trying to guess from observation how well the subordinate performs, a manager can now simply look into a worker's computer dossier and immediately see, for instance, an exact record of how many letters a week a secretary has been handling on her word processor. The manager can compare one worker objectively with all the others, then reward the speedy ones and warn the laggards. Not all employees find the surveillance oppressive. In fact many, particularly the hardest workers, prefer...