ERIC ED095581: Personal Data and the Press pdf

ERIC ED095581: Personal Data and the Press

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Spurred on by a July 1973 report of an advisory committee to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), a movement seems to be building to enact statutory protection for the privacy of personal data in government computers and other records storage systems. This effort to protect privacy poses challenges to statutory protection of public, and media, rights of access to public records and suggests a new dimension of privacy law with implications for the mass media. This paper analyzes the movement to protect privacy of personal data, with particular attention to the HEW report. It then examines, as a case study, the process which led to the only personal data protection law thus far enacted, a statute passed by the 1974 Minnesota legislature. The paper also reviews efforts to protect privacy of personal data at the federal level and to reach a reconciliation of access to records and privacy principles.

Attention is paid to both Congressional and Executive branch institutions with interests in the subject. Finally, some suggestions are advanced as to why there has not yet been a successful simultaneous analysis of the principles of access to public records and the growing movement for privacy of personal data. (Author/TO

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1974-08
• Year: 1974
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Civil Liberties, Confidentiality, Federal Legislation, Freedom of Speech, Information Dissemination, Journalism, Laws, Mass Media, News Reporting, State Legislation, Terry, Herbert A

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