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California policy violates federal law?
The State of California said it can give the data on people in state programs to researchers without notifying the people, but...

The federal Privacy Act of 1974 prohibits this kind of data release without consent of the people. Overview of the Privacy Act...

http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/04_7_1.html

...and there is a "No disclosure without consent" rule which has twelve exceptions (internal use within agency, census, law enforcement, etc.) which includes "research", but the research clause explicitly requires the social security numbers be removed from the personal data so one can't put together the kinds of complete records these folks had...

http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/1974condis.htm#research

Another poster said there should be arrests and jail time. I agree.
Posted by: csomervi   Posted on: 10/21/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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WTF Give the researcher data with Soc Sec #s  Squawkbox | 10/20/04
Why give anyone data with Soc Sec #s?  hadaso | 10/22/04
Second time around  Roger Ramjet | 10/21/04
Why assume Windows (not windoze - doesn't exist)  Confused by religion | 10/21/04
I try not to troll  Roger Ramjet | 10/21/04
Berlind admits it  Roger Ramjet | 10/21/04
UC Berkely  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/21/04
Lawsuits, criminal charges, fines, prison. It should all happen  BitTwiddler | 10/21/04
California policy violates federal law?  csomervi | 10/21/04

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