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Citizen Control Over Records Held by Third Parties (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Dec. 27, 1978
Report Number 78-255
Report Type Report
Authors Sarah P. Collins, Government Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

The United States has become an information society. Government at every level and private industry have been collecting and using more personal information about individuals in the last several years than ever before. The Congress has been aware of this trend, and of the potencia1 for misuse of the information so collected; it has enacted several laws that protect the personal privacy of individuals, and respect the confidentiality of the information maintained about individuals by third parties. In this report, several privacy laws are summarized, and key provisions of each are compared, in order to make individual citizens aware of their rights , responsibilities and remedies under the law.