Privacy: The Collection, Use, and Computerization of Personal Data : Joint Hearings Before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Privacy and Information Systems of the Committee on Government Operations and the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session ... June 18, 19, and 20, 1974, Volume 14, Part 2

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Page 1504 - Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
Page 1518 - ... (6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; (7) investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes except to the extent available by law to a party other than an agency...
Page 1517 - ... (B) statements of the general course and method by which its functions are channeled and determined, including the nature and requirements of all formal and informal procedures available...
Page 1385 - ... the right to be anonymous, the right not to be monitored, and the right not to have one's identifying information exploited (Alter 1994). Westin (1967, p. 7) defined privacy as: “the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves, when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others.
Page 1533 - States courts of any Territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to enjoin such acts or practices, and upon a proper showing a permanent or temporary injunction or restraining order shall be granted without bond.
Page 1517 - Except to the extent that a person has actual and timely notice of the terms thereof, a person may not in any manner be required to resort to, or be adversely affected by, a matter required to be published in the Federal Register and not so published.
Page 1520 - Subject to published rules of the agency and within its powers, employees presiding at hearings may — (1) administer oaths and affirmations; (2) issue subpenas authorized by law; (3) rule on offers of proof and receive relevant evidence; (4) take depositions or have depositions taken when the ends of justice would be served...
Page 1533 - House, and the person presiding over the proceeding communicates to the witness an order issued under this part, the witness may not refuse to comply with the order on the basis of his privilege against selfincrimination ; but no testimony or other information compelled under...
Page 1571 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House...
Page 1371 - A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

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