NEGATIVE — DISADVANTAGE — GOVERNMENT DATABASE ABUSE 189
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THE REAL BIG BROTHER THREAT IS A NATIONAL HEALTH DATABASE
JANE BIRNBAUM; WORTH MAGAZINE, The Plain Dealer, December 27, 1999 SECTION: HEALTH & FITNESS; Pg. 2F TITLE: CONCERN GROWS OVER INTRUSION INTO PERSONAL MEDICAL RECORDS // acs-EE2001
Says Paul Appelbaum, American Psychiatric Association vice president, "You've got people in Montana with rifles scanning the sky for black helicopters, while the real threat to their liberty is in Washington, where powerful efforts are under way to construct a national health-care data bank that would list all their medical encounters from birth to death."
FEDERAL ONLINE CRIME INITIATIVES ARE A WISH LIST FOR PRIVACY VIOLATORS
John Schwartz , Washington Post Staff Writer, The Washington Post, March 9, 2000, SECTION: FINANCIAL; Pg. E01 TITLE: Online Crime Report Raises Privacy Concerns // acs-VT2001
The report--"The Electronic Frontier: The Challenge of Unlawful Conduct on the Internet"--is to be officially released today by U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.
"What the report amounts to is a law enforcement Internet wish list of ways in which they can strip away privacy and free-speech protections in order to get at what they claim is this criminal element online," said ACLU spokeswoman Emily Whitfield.
ADVANCED LAW ENFORCEMENT DATABASES WOULD BE RIPE FOR GOVERNMENT ABUSE
The Buffalo News, August 1, 1999, SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE, Pg. 2H, TITLE: SPECTER OF BIG BROTHER // acs-EE2001
The nation needs a second opinion on this. We don't deny the need for a cyber-system that will enable the United States to combat terrorism and other threats. What's more problematic is the potential danger such a system poses to the basic civil liberties of the very Americans it is designed to protect.
The system would be controlled through the FBI and could easily be abused by law-enforcement authorities. It would employ advanced computer software to monitor and track the communications and activities of non-military government networks, with a second system tracking computerized communications of private businesses in fields like banking and telecommunications.
The program raises grave questions for a free society. Congress must explore them.
NEW GOVERNMENT SECURITY DATA NETWORKS MIN DATA FROM PRIVATE GROUPS
The Boston Globe, July 29, 1999, SECTION: ECONOMY; Pg. D2 TITLE: Plan to protect US computers draws concerns about privacy // acs-EE2001
The plan also suggests ways to convince private companies to monitor their corporate computer networks and share information about threats, although it says the government will not force companies to permit federal monitoring of their systems.
NEW GOVERNMENT SECURITY DATA NETWORKS THREATEN PRIVACY
The Boston Globe, July 29, 1999, SECTION: ECONOMY; Pg. D2 TITLE: Plan to protect US computers draws concerns about privacy // acs-EE2001
The Clinton administration is planning to create a governmentwide security network to protect the nation's most important computer systems from hackers, thieves, terrorists, and hostile countries. Civil liberties groups complain that the security tools also would make possible unprecedented electronic monitoring, especially because of the increasingly widespread use of computers by the government in almost every aspect of its citizens' daily lives.