In requesting after action reports--Pentagon-prepared summaries of interviews between reporters and Pentagon officials--investigative reporter Jack Taylor both aroused Pentagon opposition and created a rift between the Pentagon press corps and outside reporters. To investigate whether the full-time Pentagon press corps was reporting as…

As part of a symposium on the provision of architectural privacy within the classroom, this paper reviews the limited research that is available and discusses the importance of viewing classroom settings as ecological units with both physical and behavioral components. Whether children prefer to use private facilities, and whether they benefit…

This paper examines how the U.S. Privacy Protection Commission functioned. Examined are its basic authority, procedures and policies, operational plan, distinctive features, staffing, and results of recommendations. Created by an act of Congress in 1974, the Commission was authorized to examine all actual and potential invasions of privacy in the…

The right of privacy versus the public's right to know as protected by the First Amendment is discussed in this paper. A formula is suggested based on Alexander Meiklejohn's interpretation that information about any individual, either a public official or a private person, would be protected as part of the public domain of knowledge if it is…

Biofeedback training is a relatively new procedure that is being incorporated into the counseling services of psychologists and counselors. If the highest professional standards and the appropriate safeguards for clients' welfare are to be maintained, careful attention should be given to the ethical and professional issues involved. (Author)

Modern technological devices, along with advances in the behavioral sciences, can threaten the privacy of students. Technology that can reveal innermost thoughts and motives, or can change basic values and behaviors, must be used judiciously and only by qualified professionals under strictly controlled conditions. (Author)

Describes the impact of an Arizona state law that prohibited the release of any information about a student without a parent's signed authorization on school yearbook production. (KS)

Discusses the law concerning the testing of job applicants for substance abuse, pointing out differences between private and public employers and union and nonunion organizations. Concludes that the law is still not settled in this area. (CH)

The second of three articles on abusive data collection and usage practices and their effect on personal privacy, discusses the evolution of data protection laws worldwide, and compares the scope, major provisions, and enforcement components of the laws. A chronology of key events in the regulation of computer databanks in included. (1 reference)…

Because Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has been construed as a disease of the "other" who is somehow not part of society, efforts at education are destined to fail. Individual rights can easily be suborned to the perceived public good. Educators are urged to grapple with the ethical issues. (MT)

Considers the private image in family studies for its methodological assumptions and implications. Recasting the assumptions in terms of descriptive practice presents an alternative approach that construes family order as bound to organized, collective representation. Offers field data in illustration, and addresses procedural and theoretical…

Discusses the complex ethical dilemmas in social work brought about by the availability of technology. Addresses the issues of privacy, behavior control, and health care. Considers the allocation and possible misuse of technology. (Author/ABB)

In New Jersey v. T.L.O., the Supreme Court found that students have a right to personal privacy but that school officials need not obtain warrants to conduct searches if suspicion of wrongdoing is reasonable. The authors argue that the Court undervalues privacy and that students' right to privacy should be increased. (MT)

This paper provides examples of polygraph misuses; details the increasing use of the polygraph inside and outside of law enforcement; explains what a polygraph is, what a typical polygraph test might consist of and its weaknesses in the detection of truth; and analyzes the available research with specific reference to the validity and reliability…

Explores the broad meaning of the term "privacy" and focuses on ways teachers and parents can help create social and physical settings whereby young children can live and work as free-functioning individuals. (CT)