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Waiving Our Rights - The Personal Data Collection Complex and Its Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties (Hardcover, New)
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Waiving Our Rights - The Personal Data Collection Complex and Its Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties (Hardcover, New)
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The United States is not a police state, but Congress is subject to
special interests lobbying in pursuit of abusive commercial
practices that leave a lot to be desired for transparency and
accountability. It is illegal to data-mine personal files held by
government agencies, schools and universities, or medical
facilities. It is illegal to collect and publish defamatory gossip
and hearsay about private citizens. But it is legal to oblige
Americans to "waive" their rights to privacy and their right to sue
for invasion of privacy for defamation by anonymous third-parties
in order to receive essential services or apply for employment.
Americans are obliged to "waive" their rights in essentially all
applications for employment, credit, housing, public utilities,
telephone or mobile phone service, internet access, and even cable
TV connection. The law requires "notice and consent" whenever such
waivers are included in employment applications, but consumer
reporting agencies have learned to use deceptive methods to avoid
drawing the attention of applicants to the meaning and consequence
of such language. Recent law dispenses with "notice and consent"
for private-eye quasi-criminal investigations of "suspected
misconduct" by an employee altogether. In effect, this bypasses
"probable cause," "innocent until proven guilty," the "right to
know the nature of an accusation," the "right to confront
witnesses," the "rule against double jeopardy," and the "right to
sue for defamation, and/or interference with employment." Orlan Lee
questions the validity of any such "waivers," and seeks to alert
Americans to the need to protect their fundamental rights.
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