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5. Privacy and Security Issues
5. Privacy and Security Issues
Pages 47-53
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With regard to the general public fairness relates to the agency's fiscal responsibility and assurance that its funds are used for authorized purposes only. With regard to the data base, fairness relates to the accuracy with which the records are kept and, therefore, to system integrity.
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In 1975-1977, the President's Privacy Protection Study Commission carried out an exhaustive examination of record-keeping processes in both private and public sectors.* The Commission summarized its position in terms of the following three major objectives: *
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The management and administrative environment should provide the context in which the technical safeguards function and also the mechanism to assure continuing proper operation. Procedural safeguards are essential to ensure that the data base is not accidentally changed during routine operations or in emergency situations.
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In addition, the SSA needs to assess the threats that are likely to be mounted against information contained in the system by such means as deliberate attempts to penetrate access controls, by theft of copies of information, or misbehavior of employees authorized to have information. The delineation of threat is important for guiding the system design and the choice of security safeguards, for guiding vendors in preparing responses to SSA requests for proposals, and for guiding the SSA in its evaluation of the adequacy of security safeguards in vendor proposals.
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The areas in the report that are most likely to be of interest to the SSA are Chapter V, The Insurance Relationship; Chapter VI, The Employment Relationship; Chapter VII, Record-Keeping in the Medical Care Relationship; Chapter IX, Government Access to Personal Records and Private Papers; and Chapter XI, the Citizen as Beneficiary of Government Assistance. The detailed recommendations in many of these chapters deal with the record-keeping practices and organizational behavior of institutions in the private sector.
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The Commission has recommended that an individual have access to his medical records, whether these are maintained by a medical care provider or by a thirdparty outside of the normal medical community. In view of its involvement in Medicare, the SSA could conceivably become the custodian of some health care data and could be subject, therefore, to requests to see and copy such information.
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The Commission has also recommended that the country take no steps to institute a uniform personal identifying document or to create a central population register until privacy safeguards have been fully implemented and are known to be effective. The thrust of the Privacy Protection Study Commission report is likely to reinforce what responsible record-keeping management already understands to be the essence of privacy and computer security.
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