While much attention has been focused on online privacy and the use of personally identifiable information by commercial web sites, the Federal Government is a huge repository of personal information in both paper and electronic form. Balancing the important interests of public access to government records with privacy protection for personal information is not always easy to do.
Patrick Leahy: “While much attention has been focused on online privacy and the use of personally identifiable information by commercial…”
On the recordMarch 13, 2001
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