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FC: Clinton administration report on bankruptcy & privacy, from P.Swire
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:39:27 -0500
[Peter Swire was the White House's chief counselor for privacy under President Clinton. --Declan]
******** Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:34:38 -0800 (PST) From: peter swire <peterswire () yahoo com> Subject: New study on privacy, bankruptcy, public records To: declan () well com Cc: swire.1 () osu edu Declan: Here is an item that may be of interest for your list. Today, OMB, Treasury, and the Justice Department released a study on bankruptcy and privacy. The press release is available at www.treasury.gov/press/releases/ps1136.htm. (I'm not sure if the full report is posted yet.) This study may turn out to be important to the developing debate about how access to public records should be treated as court and other records increasingly go on-line. An example of the problem comes from the fact that active bank account numbers are now often revealed in public bankruptcy records. This sort of sensitive financial information would generally not be available to the general public, much less for free over the Internet. No sensible person wants to shut down citizen access to most public records. But sensible persons may also believe that certain specific categories of information, such as bank account numbers and Social Security numbers, might no longer be appropriate to be released. The challenge will be how to construct new systems that meet both the legitimate accountability and privacy goals. Peter P.S. My best email is now swire.1 () osu edu. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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