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...tape whole conversations. Video-surveillance cameras quietly scan many workplaces. Neighborhood retailers now stock hardware that used to be the stuff of spy novels. But by far the most important high-tech threat to privacy is not an exotic surveillance device but a familiar storage system: the computer. Computers permit nimble feats of data manipulation, including high-speed retrieval and matching of records, that were impossible with paper stored in file cabinets. They have turned data collection into a $1 billion-a-year industry -- one in which nearly every American supplies the data, often without knowing...
...response to a problem that lies closer to home, several lawmakers have proposed legislation to beef up the 1974 Privacy Act, the federal law that defends citizens from government misuse of data. Enforcement is haphazard, and loopholes permit agencies to stretch the law. Though the act would appear to forbid it, agencies exchange information on individual citizens in the name of detecting waste, fraud and abuse of benefits. They claim that such exchanges are legal on the ground that the disclosures are "compatible" with the purpose for which the data were collected. Under that loose standard, tax returns are compared...
...Permit adult persons with terminal conditions to request and receive aid-in-dying from their physicians, facilitating death...
...working poor. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, stirred the most talk by proposing a $72.5 billion tax cut aimed squarely at the middle class. It would grant families a $300 tax credit for each child under the age of 19 and would permit all taxpayers to deduct as much as $2,000 a year invested in Individual Retirement Accounts. Bentsen would pay for the cuts by reducing defense spending. That would throw open last year's budget agreement for renegotiation, because the accord forbids Congress to shift funds from defense to other programs...
...long way from gaining political equality with whites, there are ample signs that the apartheid system is crumbling -- as are the international sanctions that were erected against it. Last week Japan, following the U.S. by three months, lifted economic restrictions. A few days earlier, the Commonwealth nations decided to permit a resumption of sporting and cultural events. The changes are generally approved by the African National Congress, South Africa's leading black political group. Earlier this year, the A.N.C. gave its blessing to the resumption of certain cultural contacts, paving the way for visits by such black artists as singer...