Personal Privacy in an Information Society

The Report of The Privacy Protection Study Commission

July, 1977

Table of Contents

Preface

1.  Introduction

2.  The Consumer-Credit Relationship

3.  The Depository Relationship

4.  Mailing Lists

5.  The Insurance Relationship

6.  The Employment Relationship

7.  Record Keeping in the Medical-Care Relationship

8.  Investigative-Reporting Agencies

9.  Government Access to Personal Records and "Private Papers"

10.  Record Keeping in the Education Relationship

11.  The Citizen as Beneficiary of Government Assistance

12.  The State Role in Privacy Protection

13.  The Relationship Between Citizen and Government: The Privacy Act of 1974

14.  The Relationship Between Citizen and Government: The Citizen as Taxpayer

15.  The Relationship Between Citizen and Government: The Citizen as Participant in Research and Statistical Studies

16.  The Social Security Number

Epilogue

Appendix: Hearings of the Privacy Protection Study Commission