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960722_deadbeat_databases_article.excerpt

Excerpt from Reuters article regarding Clinton Administration and Congressional plans to increase databasing of citizen information, in an effort to catch more "deadbeat parents" avoiding child support duties. Both houses of Congress are (as of July 1996) considering legislation to create a "central unit" that will automatically "register" child support data, "track deadbeat parents who cross state lines", and maintain "directories to track new hires", with no longer than a 20-day turnaround, so that states can "establish paternity and enforce child support orders". The White House plan, already set into motion with an Executive Order, establishes a "computer database to track [parents] behind on their payments as they move from job to job", again by tracking employment. These frightening plans would almost certainly be extended very quickly to allow law enforcement to monitor the populace based on any enforcement criteria, not just deadbeat parenthood. Yet another ugly example of how the rhetoric of "protecting children" is being used as a very sharp weapon to undermine American privacy and other civil liberties.

aclu_drug_testing_workplace.faq

ACLU's November 1992 FAQ on drug testing in the workplace

bkground_checks.factsheet

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse "Employment Background Checks: A Jobseeker's Guide"; covers several privacy issues as they relate to pre-employment screening.

galkin_workpriv_122895.article

William S. Galkin, Esq., discusses for the layperson the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and other legal issues surrounding privacy in the workplace. Galkin recommends that "employees and employers can create a more productive work environment if they work together to jointly develop a Policy Statement that balances the legitimate interests of both the employer and the employees."

s984_consumer_workplace_priv.bill

Senator Simon's May 1993 "Privacy for Consumers and Workers Act" which attempts to prevent abuses of electronic monitoring in the workplace, and for other purposes

urine_test.list

may 1994 posting of The Great Usenet Just-Say-NO-to-PISS-TESTs Project which contains two lists. The first is a list of companies that have PISS or other Human Quality test programs as reported by first person experience. The second list is a list of companies that are known to have public policies AGAINST the invasion of privacy and the violation of Constitutional Protection that Human Quality tests constitute

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Judiciary/

Directory of information relating to workplace computer monitoring in the US Federal Judiciary, and the disputes & controversy surrounding this.

Ratings_filters_labelling/

Directory of information on Internet content filtering, labelling and rating, and monitoring of internet activity with "snoop" software

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