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Show 49 HUMAN RIGHTS still exists. Before the Army shut down its program, it had already shared much information with the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and state in telligence agencies." Safeguards for Individual Privacy In These Systems The Senate Subcommittee • on are Minimal. Administrative Practice and Pro agencies often demand information which been authorized by Congress.> cedure found that federal has not tary, • people by intimating that questionnaires that are in fact volun Information collectors often deceive • the law requires or use a response to coercive practices to extract information. IS 25,000 credit bureau files an securing subpoenas, because the bureaus find it cooperate if they ever want to get information The F.B.I. is able to examine over nually advantageous to from the government.> without first • None of the Justice Department data systems permit the sub see his file to challenge or his representative to correct the information." ject individual • the or of computers by an agency puts more information at fingertips of any snooper able to gain access to the system. The use CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT "If the Army must be used to law and order quell violence it wants to restore possible and return to its normal quickly protective role-to do this it must know in advance as much as possible about the well springs of violence and the heart and nerve causes as as of chaos." Department of the Army Civil Disturbance Information Collection Plan, Section 2, May 2, 1968 "Nonetheless, the record reveals that little, if any, direction and guidance was provided to the military services from the White House or the Department of Justice in written form." ROBERT F. FROEHLKE Asst. Sec. of Defense (Administration) Senate Hearings, March 2, 1971 • Not until December 17, 1970-after Senator Ervin's Subcom- |
