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You Should Know: Your Privacy and State Agency Records.
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New York State Committee on Open Government, Albany. – 1985
This brochure outlines the general provisions of the Personal Privacy Protection Law (Public Officers Law, Article 6-A, sections 91-99) which became effective on September 1, 1984, and is intended to protect each individual's privacy by regulating the manner in which the state collects, maintains, and disseminates personal information about its…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Confidential Records, Databases, Disclosure
Implementing the Government's New Information Policy.
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Sprehe, J. Timothy – Information Services and Use, 1987
Describes the information policy framework prescribed by OMB Circular No. A-130, which introduces the distinction between access to information and information dissemination. The discussion covers the use of electronic collection and dissemination of government information, together with the need to safeguard privacy and public access to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Electronic Publishing, Federal Government
Memorandum: "Cost Sharing" for the Dissemination of Government Information in Electronic Formats.
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Zagami, Anthony J. – Government Information Quarterly, 1991
It is not legally permissible for depository libraries to impose user fees upon library patrons who want government information which is available in electronic format. Publishing federal agency is responsible for costs of furnishing access to the database, and Government Printing Office is obligated to pay the costs of conveying that information…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Costs, Databases, Depository Libraries
Federal Family Education Loan Information System. Weak Computer Controls Increase Risk of Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Data. Report to the Secretary of Education.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Accounting and Information Management Div. – 1995
This report presents an evaluation of the general controls over the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) information system maintained and operated by a contractor for the U.S. Department of Education (ED), which administers FFELP. The evaluation found that ED's general controls over the FFELP information system did not adequately protect…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Security, Databases, Federal Programs
Statement of the Special Libraries Association on the Department of Commerce Solicitation of Public Comment on the Study of Alternatives for Privatizing the National Technical Information Service.
Special Libraries Association, Washington, DC. – 1986
In this response to the issues and alternatives for the proposed privatization of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) as presented in the "Federal Register" of April 28, 1986, the Special Libraries Association (SLA) rejects outright the proposal to privatize all of its functions, and expresses its preference for keeping…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Database Producers, Databases, Government Publications
Information Dissemination: Innovative Ways Agencies Are Using Technology. Testimony before the Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives.
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Brock, Jack L., Jr. – 1992
This testimony discusses ways in which some federal government agencies use technology to provide the public with cheaper, faster access to a wider range of information which can be searched and manipulated in ways never possible on the printed page. Technologies included in the discussion are compact disc-read only memory (CD-ROM), electronic…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Databases, Electronic Mail