perry@imsi.com says:
xpat@vm1.spcs.umn.edu says:
Excerpts from : St Paul Pioneer Press, Jan 29, 1995
Here's the kicker: "Although agency officials concede that some of the data collected will be inaccurate, taxpayers will not be allowed to review or correct it" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The privacy act and FOIA make that more or less illegal -- if they are keeping information on you, with certain law enforcement related exceptions they have to let you see it.
I should add that later in the article it suggests the scenario of select information from the database being used in an audit, and you would be able to contest the specific information they use against you, but you would not be able to view any of the raw data. ^^^^^^^^^ It sounds like this amounts to "we don't have the info until we use it against you". -------------------------------------------------------------------- P M Dierking |