PROTECTING [PRIVACY AND FREEDOM]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200590003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: NSPR

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detector test, has been revealed as ~'' By data surveillance-- t~~e co -
lection, exchange and manipulation.
one of the latest investigative gadgets of information about individuals or
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area of the citizen's life., the rnarviauai, tine new ecnanlsms'
In his' report, sponsored by , the'; i~,. ,for, surveillance greatly', enlarge op
Association of the Bar of the city `o , : portunities for blacklisting and lack
New York and supported' by?grants,;,., mail and. for capricious .prosecution ~
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predicts an electronic device which
can be suspended in the air over 'a
sights. and sounds in the whole area.
Yet such a pervasive snooping de-
vice would, not violate any existing
? law.)
~> By psychological surveillance-
-he use, of oral or written tests; de-
;.laser-recording process makes it pos-
thinks polygraph tests are
infallible and who refers to them' as sible.to put: on a.single'4,800-foot roll
a form of "20th Century witchcraft'' `' of. computer'?tape and store for swift
Unfortunately, the.-wiggle chair"!~ . use,` or misuse, 20 pages of. typed in
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nl one of a host of : electronic';;:., formation on every nian, woman and
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and. Freedom," Professor `..Alan . ";fact that the new devices for' prying, ..ti.
Westin ' of Columbia University' re-:;';:, :.arc employed or. favored . by well: ?
on the rapidly expanding tech I ' meaning ? law officers . and' `social
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nology? of modern:?scienitiXic ?surverl scientists who do?not appreciate their t;
lance and warns of';the''' glowing ominous.implications; Aside from 1he;ti
tlircats from unauthorized .:official ? destruction of the last'islands of prl , .
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Westin surveys thre0 broad areas 'in ,.Y` .,,..Before the machine` goes too far, . ' .
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and surveillance is being upset: ficial and; private. restraints 'to pro-
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pproved For eiease 2000/05/051A-R P04R00020059-6