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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joint project of the Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the windmill ?more correctly, wind turbine?has a body by Westinghouse and blades by Lockheed, and cost $1.25 million. Parked by its side is a van full of monitoring equipment and computers that start the rotor turning when the wind hits 12 m.p.h. and shut it off, to prevent it from wearing out, at 40 m.p.h. Since winds averaging nearly 15 m.p.h. blow through Clayton almost every day, the turbine more often than not will be generating 200 kw. of electricity?enough to power...
...ignored (by the rest of society). But such matters are not much discussed in movies. Paul Schrader, previously best known as the writer of Taxi Driver, which dealt with another sort of disfranchisement, deserves high marks for originality as prime mover, director and co-writer of this new project...
...past three months, computers in Washington, D.C., have been comparing a list of 1.8 million civilians on the federal payroll with another list of welfare recipients in 21 states. So far, Project Match has come up with 26,334 "hits" ?names that appear on both lists...
Civil libertarians, however, want to end the program. Complains John Shattuck, Washington director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Project Match exemplifies precisely the kind of manipulation of personal data that people most fear." Adds David Linowes, chairman of the Privacy Protection Study Commission: "People shouldn't be treated as so many pieces of raw data being shunted about...
...occasions civil libertarians have beaten down proposals for national computerized data banks (on tax and census information). Each time they successfully invoked fears of 1984-style invasion of privacy by electronic technology. "Public opinion is aroused when a central computer is proposed," says A.C.L.U. Privacy Project Director Trudy Hayden. "But this time, they're starting small, matching two little computer lists, affecting only the poor and the weak...