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PRIVACY

High School National Debate Topic 2000

Resolved: That the United States federal government should significantly increase protection of privacy in the United States in one or more of the following areas: employment, medical records, consumer information, search and seizure.

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Background on Subjects

Debate Readings and Background

    • University of Kansas
      • Top-rated web page for the high school debate topic
      • Full-text of numerous articles on the issues
      • Also includes links to U.S. government, legal, and think tank web sites

Books [Web and Library]

    • Connect to MIRLYN via
    • MCAT lists books within the University of Michigan Library system as well as electronic publications
    • Search by author, title, subject or keyword
    • Examples of Library of Congress Subject Headings

          confidentiality
          data protection
          eavesdropping
          electronic commerce
          mailing list services industry
          medical records--access control--united states
          privacy, right of--united states
          searches and seizures--united states
          telemarketing--united states
          wiretapping

    • Graduate Library Stacks Directory

    • Keyword Searching when
      • You don't know the subject heading
      • There IS no subject heading
      • You know part of the author, title, or subject

Boolean Logic

    • Keyword Searching

IllustrationMIRLYN-ClassicMIRLYN-WebProquestPAISAcademic Universe
PHRASE k=drug adj testing drug w testing "drug testing" drug w testing drug testing
AND k=workplace and privacy workplace and privacy workplace and privacy workplace and privacy workplace and privacy
OR k=workplace or employee workplace or employee workplace or employee workplace or employee workplace or employee
NOT k=drug not alcohol drug not alcohol drug and not alcohol drug not alcohol drug and not alcohol
COMPLEX SEARCHING k=drug adj testing and (workplace or employee) reads incorrectly as
(drug testing and workplace) OR employee		 "drug testing" and (workplace or employee) drug w testing and (workplace or employee) drug testing and (workplace or employee)
TRUNCATION k=wiretap? wiretap? wiretap? wiretap+ wiretap!

Periodical Indexes


    • Alternative Press Index (UMich Only)
      • Indexes over 380 alternative, left, and radical leftist publications issued in North America since 1991
      • Alternative includes radicalism, minorities, gay/lesbian studies, music, and country advocates
      • Check MIRLYN for the location of the cited periodical

    • Index to Legal Periodicals (UMich Only)
      • Index to legal journals and law reviews published in English-speaking countries since August 1981
      • Sample Search: privacy and (labor or employee)
      • Search may be limited to full text
      • Many items also appear in Academic Universe as full text articles

    • Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin (UMich Only)
      • Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
      • Government documents include United States, United Nations, League of Nations, and State Governments
      • Sample Search: (mailing w list+ or telemarketing) and privacy


Periodicals and Articles [Web]

    • Academic Universe (UMich Only)
      • Index and full text of thousands of newspaper, periodical and law review articles on the web
      • Sample Search in Law/Law Reviews/More Options: privacy w/5 employ! [in full text] and from 5/15/1998 to 6/15/2000

    • Congressional Quarterly (UMich Only)
      • Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
      • Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
      • Roll call votes
      • Political party and election analysis
      • Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable

    • Political Information
      • Universal web index focusing on U.S. public policy sources
      • Includes articles issued by think tanks, Congressional representatives, and interest groups

    • ProQuest (UMich Only) [http://www.lib.umich.edu/rrs/proquest.html]
      • Research Library indexes some 2300 journals in all fields since the 1980s and provides the full text of many since the 1990s (marked by a full-page symbol)
      • Includes popular and scholarly titles, such as Comparative Politics, Governing, International Political Science Review, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
      • Peer-Reviewed Journals is a subset of 600 scholarly journals that also appear in the Research Library
      • ABI Inform refers to business periodicals
      • Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
      • Sample search
          (mailing list? or telemarketing) and privacy
      • Articles may be marked for downloading
      • Text in HTML and image formats

    • University of Kansas
      • Top-rated web page for the high school debate topic
      • Full-text of numerous articles on the issues
      • Also includes links to U.S. government, legal, and think tank web sites


Think Tank Articles


News Sources [Web and Library]

World Wide Web - Full Text

    • Academic Universe/LEXIS Web (UMich Only)
      • Choose General News and then a region or type of newspaper
      • Uses Boolean logic and phrase searching (e.g. russia and indian nuclear)

    • Cable News Network
      • News stories on current political issues, often with the full-text of relevant documents
      • Recent material archived in subject groups
      • Summaries or full text of recent CNN political programs
      • Link to search engine at left side of screen

    • Christian Science Monitor
      • Daily newspaper with the full text of lead articles (U.S., international, cultural, crossword)
      • Archive back to 1980 searchable by subject

    • New York Times
      • Complete edition of today's newspaper with a search interface
      • Previous issues/articles available for a fee
      • You must register
      • Also available on the University of Michigan campus through Academic Universe

    • USA Today
      • Daily articles on news, sports, weather and finances
      • Archival file of the top news stories

    • Washington Post
      • Full text of current issue and searchable archive
      • International section has news and web links to individual countries
      • National section has new and web links to individual states
      • Searchable index creates maps for individual U.S. business establishments

World Wide Web - Newspaper Locators

    • Editor and Publisher On-Line Newspapers
      • Links to over 1000 newspapers worldwide
      • Arranged by continent and country; for the United States, subdivided by state
      • Annotations describe publication, provide links, and give pricing information when applicable

    • Ultimate News Links
      • Lists 3,700 newspaper web sites from around the world
      • Arranged by continent/country/state or province
      • Includes foreign language newspapers

Special Subjects

Special Subjects are also covered by other books, articles, think tank reports, and association material on the web page.


Comprehensive Privacy Web Sites


Computer Privacy

Consumers

    • Better Business Bureau
      • Suggested privacy policies for business and marketing

    • Electronic Privacy Information Center
      • Advocacy group for Internet privacy
      • Newsletters and annotated guide to U.S. and international electronic privacy organizations
    • Policy.Com
      • Full text of articles on privacy issues, primarily with electronic commerce and surveillance
      • Links to interest group web sites
      • Excellent starting place for quotations with a variety of viewpoints

    • Privacy and American Business
      • Articles and bills on privacy and consumers
      • Individualized marketing


Cybercrime

    • Carnivore (FBI)
      • Diagnostic tool allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to intercept court-ordered surveillance of potential criminals (e.g. email but not online shopping)
      • Describes the program
      • Testimony of the FBI's Donald Kerr before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, July 24, 2000
      • Newspaper editorials

    • Cyber Threats and the U.S. Economy (CIA)
      • Testimony given by John Serabian of the CIA to the Joint Economic Committee on February 23, 2000
      • Outlines types of cyberthreats and CIA response

    • Cybercrime (Dept. of Justice)
      • Legal and policy issues of cybercrime, including freedom of speech, electronic commerce, encryption and privacy
      • Cyberetiquette for children
      • How to report cybercrime

    • Electronic Frontier: The Challenge of Unlawful Conduct Involving the Use of the Internet
      • Report by the President's Working Group on Unlawful Conduct on the Internet
      • Analyzes computers as targets, storage facilities, and communications tools
      • Adequacy of federal laws, law enforcement problems, and types of cybercrime
      • Recommendations include treating crimes in a technology-neutral atmosphere, establishing new tools, and working with the private sector

    • International Crime in Cyberspace (Council of Europe)
      • Discussion draft of convention released on April 27, 2000
      • Calls for coordinated effort against hacking

Employment


Famous Cases

Did the FBI violate the privacy rights of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians by its siege on the Waco compound? Did Linda Tripp violate Monica Lewinsky's privacy rights by taping their conversation or did the Pentagon violate Tripp's rights by leaking her employment record? Did Ken Starr violate President Clinton's rights by pursuing impeachment? Have the paparazzi and tabloids invaded the rights of John and Patsy Ramsey over the murder of Jon Benet?

There are numerous web sites which mention all of these cases. However, the best source for debate purposes are legal periodicals. Use Academic Universe for law reviews.

Humane Genome Project

    • Background
      • Researchers Venter and Collins announced on June 26, 2000 that the human genetic code had finally been mapped
      • The 15-year project is ahead of schedule
      • Enormous implications for the cure of disease but also genetic discrimination

    • Blueprint of the Body (CNN)
      • Interactive guide to describing role of DNA
      • Business, medical and legal implications of the Human Genome Project

    • Celera Genomics
      • Announcement of genome mapping on June 26, 2000
      • Details of how the code was cracked

    • Human Genome Most Used Links
      • List of mapping, sequence, and computational links

    • Human Genome Project (Dept. of Energy)
      • Description of the project to map the genetic code
      • Medical applications of the project; relation of genetic predisposition to disease
      • Newsletters, videos, and bibliographies
      • Genetic privacy found under section on Ethical and Social Issues

    • National Bioethics Advisory Commission
      • Commission charged with making recommendations on human cloning (1997)
      • Membership, charge, text of advisory committee meetings
      • Rhetaugh Graves Dumas (UMich) is Commission member; Harold T. Shapiro, President of Princeton and former UMich President, is Commission Chair
      • Subsequent reports on stem cell research

    • National Center for Biotechnology Information (NIH)
      • Databases of human genes for cancer research

    • National Human Genome Research Institute
      • Links to numerous genetic sequencing data bases and research institutes
      • Policy recommendations for federal and state government
      • Description of existing research grants

    • Race is Over (Time Magazine)
      • Article dated for July 3, 2000
      • Describes the competition between U.S. and Britain to discover the human genome first

    • What They Said (BBC)
      • Quotations from Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Craig Venter on the discovery of the genome
      • Quotations from President Clinton and Tony Blair



Medical Records

Search and Seizure


KEY PLAYERS

Associations


Political Parties

Federal Government

Agency Locators

    • Federal Agency Web Sites (LSU)
      • Cleancut alphabetical listing of federal agency web sites

    • Federal Gateway
      • Frames index expands to list federal government agencies in each branch
      • Agency information includes a brief description of the organization's mission as well as a weblink
      • Guides to acronyms, genealogy, and popular information, such as the Titanic investigation

    • Google's Uncle Sam
      • Search engine limited to federal government web sites
      • A search on privacy will yield privacy policies of individual government agencies

Budget

    • Federal Budget FY2001
      • Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Budget Analyses, Historical Tables, Systems and Concepts, Principles, and Citizen's Guide
      • Keyword searching available for one or more publications
      • No browsing capability


President

    • Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1993+
      • Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press conferences, names of nominees
      • Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized, e.g. privacy AND (employment or employee)
      • Table of contents search (contents AND "july 28, 1997)

    • White House Electronic Publications
      • Press releases, speeches and documents beginning January 1993 and updated daily
      • Search by keyword and date

    • White House Privacy Policy
      • Statement regarding confidentiality of White House web and e-mail contacts


Executive Branch

    • Census Bureau
      • Confidentiality of Census questionnaires was a political issue in March and April 2000
      • See newspaper and magazine articles from that time period
      • Census Bureau Confidentiality Policy

    • Central Intelligence Agency
      • Use the search engine at the top of the main web page for a few articles and news on privacy

    • Employment Standards Administration (Dept. of Labor)
      • Agency enforces standards among employers and government contractors
      • Use search engine for confidentiality and privacy rulings

    • Federal Bureau of Investigation
      • Rich source for reports, investigations, testimony, and proposed legislation on privacy issues
      • Use the search engine at the top of the screen
      • Its Electronic Reading Room has primary documents from investigations in the past, such as Elvis Presley, the Weatherman Underground, the Rosenbergs

    • Federal Trade Commission
      • Descriptions, reports and testimony on FTC's privacy initiatives
      • Covers on-line privacy, children's privacy, and theft identity

    • Health Care Financing Administration
      • Concerned with the privacy of medical records for Medicare and Medicaid recipients
      • News articles and forms about protecting privacy

    • Justice Department
      • Oversees execution of law, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Bureau of Prisons, and National Criminal Justice Reference Service
      • Comprehensive search engine for all Justice Department web pages does not work well
      • Go to individual sub-agency sites or use Google's Uncle Sam for indexing

    • National Criminal Justice Reference Service
      • Data base of facts, full-text reports, investigations, and abstracts of reports on crime enforcement and juvenile crime
      • A keyword search (bottom of page) on "search and seizure" brought over 140 results, including testimony on DNA evidence

    • National Telecommunications and Information Administration
      • Its Privacy and the NII is a whitepaper discussing privacy in the telecommunications industry and marketing

    • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
      • Standards, regulations, and interpretations on worker health
      • Standards for medical screening of employees subjected to hazardous substances at the workplace
      • Notices to individual companies about privacy restrictions on workplace drug testing

    • Privacy Protection Study Commission
      • Special commission which issued a research report in 1977 entitled Personal Privacy in an Information Society (Grad Library JC 599 .U5 A453)
      • Recommendations on maintaining privacy
      • Appendices on taxpayers, employment records, privacy laws in the states, and technology

    • Treasury Department
      • Oversees financial institutions, tax collection, Secret Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
      • Use search engine at the top of the page with the terms privacy of confidentiality

Congress


Courts

    • Academic Universe/LEXIS (UMich Only)
      • Full text of Supreme, Circuit and District Court opinions as well as tax, commerce, and military courts
      • Full text of law reviews
      • Click on "Sources" at top of each section to identify individual titles being covered
      • Can search by keyword in text or citation; type of court, and date
      • Sample Search
          Federal Case Law/District Courts
          employee w/10 drug testing           2/1/92 to 5/31/98

    • Federal Courts (Admin. Office of the U.S. Courts)
      • Articles on and a description of the U.S. court system
      • Directory of automated access to court records arranged by type of court and district
      • Circuit and District Courts are listed in its Links section

    • Supreme Court Decisions, 1893+ via FindLaw
      • Decisions searchable by citation, title, and full text
      • Also browsable by year or volume number though once identified the cases still require searching
      • Full text of opinions include hypertext links to footnotes


Michigan

    • Michigan Commission on Genetic Privacy and Progress
      • Recommendations on the privacy of all medical records
      • Submitted in 1998

    • Michigan Compiled Laws
      • Search for laws-in-force or constitution by keyword, law number or MCL citation
      • Advanced search includes additional strategies by history and legal challenges
      • Numerous acts on personal privacy, electronic fund transfers, library privacy

    • Michigan Governor's Office
      • Press releases and State of the State speech
      • Privacy of employee records and genetic privacy

    • Michigan Legislature
      • Indexes bills since 1997 by keyword and bill number
      • Links provide text of bill, journal proceedings, fiscal analyses, and status
      • Some publications only in PDF format
      • Includes privacy of educational records

    • Michigan in Brief
      • Analysis of issues before the State Legislature
      • Privacy mentioned in passing in conjunction with consumer protection and mental health
      • Issued by a non-profit corporation


State Governments

    • National Conference of State Legislators
      • Some material on privacy found using search engine
      • Focus on medical records and genetic privacy issues
      • Additional articles from NCSL are found in State Capital Universe (UMich Only) under the Policy and Issues section

    • National Governors Association
      • Governors' legislative agenda
      • Only a few reports on privacy issues were available through the search engine

    • State Capital Universe (UMich Only)
      • Indexes bills and bill status since 1990
      • Includes official political journals of selected states and newspaper of record for all states
      • Various policy briefs from the National Conference of State Legislatures under Policy and Issues may be the best source for state legislation on privacy
      • Indexes current codes and administrative regulations of all states
      • May be searched by state and keyword or across states by keyword
      • Provides full text and notes
      • Includes Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest

    • State Legal Materials on the Web
      • Links to bills, laws, and regulations by state
      • Under construction as of May 26, 1999 but close to completion


International

    • Foreign Countries
      • Privacy Exchange
        • Heart of the web site is a summary of national laws on privacy in its Legal Library

      • Privacy International
        • Individual reports for 50 countries on privacy issues and laws
        • Extensive material on general privacy issues, including Freedom of Information, national ID cards, electronic money, electronic surveillance, And workplace surveillance

    • European Union
      • CELEX (UMich Only)
        • Text of European Union legislation in force
        • Accessible through Academic Universe (Legal Research/CELEX)
      • Europa (European Commission)
        • History, structure, program, activities, and directory of members
        • Collage of documents in various formats with search engine
        • Data protection is often a term used for privacy
      • Eur-Lex/European Union Law
        • Last twenty days of the Official Journal's L Series (legislation) and C Series (information and notices)
        • Treaties and recent Court of Justice Judgements
        • Full text of legislation-in-force
        • Easiest to use search engine on left side of screen
      • Safe Harbor (U.S. Commerce Dept)
        • U.S. government plan to comply with EU directive requiring businesses with whom they deal to maintain privacy protection standards

    • United Nations
      • Access UN (UMich Only)
        • Index to United Nations documents issued since 1956
        • Searches may be defined by author, country, type of document (official record, sales publication), subject, title, text, and date
        • Keyword search on privacy yields General Assembly resolutions and material from the Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/)
        • Provides citations to United Nations microfiche and paper records located in the Documents Center
        • Includes the full text of General Assembly plenary meetings (A/PV) since 1993 (48th session) and its committees (e.g. A/C.2/46/SR.1) since the 45th session, 1990, when they contain voting records
        General Assembly and Security Council
    • United Nations
      • Basic information on the United Nations (history, charter, member countries)
      • Press releases, daily highlights
      • General Assembly, ECOSOC, and Security Council publications and resolutions
      • Index permits keyword searching for all documents or by individual type of document
      • Major conference documents, catalog of UN sales publications, audio-visual material


Special Materials

Laws

Federal Laws


States

    • Academic Universe (UMich Only)
      • Indexes the most current state codes and court decisions by keyword
      • You can search by individual state but not across states

    • State Capital Universe (UMich Only)
      • Indexes bills and bill status since 1990
      • Includes official political journals of selected states and newspaper of record for all states
      • Various policy briefs from the National Conference of State Legislatures
      • Indexes current codes and administrative regulations of all states
      • May be searched by state and keyword or across states by keyword
      • Provides full text and notes
      • Includes Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest

    • State Legal Materials on the Web
      • Links to bills, laws, and regulations by state
      • Under construction as of May 26, 1999 but close to completion

    • WashLaw (Washburn University)
      • Arranged by state with links to bills, laws, administrative codes and court decisions
      • Known as most comprehensive in country

    • See also Michigan


Statistics

Comprehensive Sources

    • Statistical Abstract of the United States
      • Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on the national and state levels
      • Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education, manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial Outlook
      • No particular statistics on privacy but you might find general statistics on cellphone and computer users
      • Full text available in Adobe Acrobat format
      • State rankings and state/county profiles in HTML format
      • The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202
      • The Statistical Universe interface is easier to use on the UMich Campus

Comprehensive Indexes

    • FedStats
      • Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal government agencies
      • Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
      • Search engine indexes individual statistical tables by keyword or agency and provides direct connection

    • Statistical Universe (UMich Only)
      • Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980, and international agencies since 1983
      • Access through the Statistical Sources menu
      • Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign country, by age, by disease)
        • You will find at least some material on state privacy laws, medical records, public opinion polls, etc.
        • About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
        • For items not hot-linked:
          • Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to the Documents Center for the microfiche version
          • Consult Statistical Universe Guide for various web searching alternatives and a Slide Show for further details


TERM PAPER GUIDES

Citation Guides

    • Citation Guides
      • Guides to various printed citation guides in the Graduate Library
      • Web guides to citing various formats, including electronic

    • Turabian Style Guide
      • Popular with many classes although it does not cover electronic media

Reference Tools

    • Dictionaries and encyclopedias
    • Quotations and writing guides

Research Guides

    • A+ Research and Writing (Internet Public Library)
      • Step-by-step guide to writing a term paper
      • Includes tips such as setting deadlines, number of words per page, role of brainstorming
      • Instructions on researching both in the library and on the Internet

    • Library Research Guide (UMich)
      • Guide to analyzing class assignment, research, evaluating materials, writing the paper, and citing sources
      • Description with links to web sources and printed materials in the University of Michigan Undergraduate Library

Internet Search Engines

    • AltaVista
      • Keyword index to the TEXT of individual web pages
      • Largest and most popular of search engines as of July 1996
    • Excite
      • Extremely fast index to the contents of web pages
    • Google
    • HotBot
      • Includes advanced searching by Internet domain (e.g. .gov, .edu)
      • Advanced searching using the domain: .mi.us would retrieve State of Michigan publications
    • Yahoo [Web]
      • Comprehensive classified subject list of world-wide web sites



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