COMPUTER SYSTEM SECURITY AND PRIVACY ADVISORY BOARD

RESOLUTION 96-2

December 10-12, 1996

As part of its work plan for 1997, the Board has decided to examine the
effects of new information technology and government information practices
on privacy.

The fundamental legal protections for information privacy were established
in the Privacy Act of 1974.  In the 22 intervening years since passage of
the Act, computer and communications technology have gone through enormous
change.  Congress has legislated more demands on agencies to establish data
bases of personal information.  Budgetary restrictions are changing federal
record-keeping practices.

Consistent with its statutory obligation to identify latent issues, the
Board wishes to hear from the public in order to become more fully informed
and to make better recommendations.

FOR:   Baggett, Burns, Layton, Leo, Parker, Sanovic, Spix, Vetter, Weingarten

ABSENT:  Fischer