Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found that too many Americans are being hurt unnecessarily. The commission reports that many private investigators do not double-check data that may be wrong often gather far more information than is needed and sometimes use illegal methods. While people have a legal right to know what information is kept about them by credit bureaus- so that it can be corrected- they do not have a similar right to inspect files maintained on them by private investigators, insurance companies and other businesses. Says Linowes: "There were enough stories of data misuse to suggest that the potential for abuse is limitless...
...information in the Social Security Administration's records; the information-for instance, the person's birth date and the amount of the bill-was needed to verify claims. The same computer contains highly personal facts, including family income, expenditures and assets, that are supposed to be kept private. Though Social Security officials assured the Linowes commission that safeguards had been designed to keep the insurers from obtaining this information, a recent test of the system showed that this was not true. Security has been tightened, but the goof underscored Linowes' point that "there does not exist...
...Direct credit bureaus, insurance agencies, private investigators and employers to tell people whether files are being kept on them...
...Outlaw "pretext" interviews-in which an investigator impersonates a doctor or clergyman to squeeze out information that should be kept private...
...another case, a 17-year-old runaway kept calling her parents collect. Using phone company records, Beltrante tracked her to a rundown house in a West Coast city. Not long ago, the wife of a federal judge asked him to check what her husband was doing while traveling to hear cases. She had the names of the two credit cards he used -enough for Beltrante's sources in the credit card companies to report on the errant judge's one-night stands. Trailing His Honor on a trip, one of Beltrante's agents watched him pick...