Edgy, spirited and serious is the debate currently under way in Washington before the subcommittee investigating the invasion of privacy and threats to individual liberty posed by the U.S. Budget Bureau's proposed National Data Center. This computerized fact vampire, as House Subcommittee Chairman Cornelius Gallagher and some others view it, would thirstily suck up data about millions of Americans from some 20 separate Government bureaus ranging, from the Social Security Administration and the Federal Reserve Board to the Census and Internal Revenue Bureaus, which already possess vast information stockpiles of their own.
No Second Chance. What would be included? Virtually...
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