Waiving our rights
Subtitle: the personal data collection complex and its threat to privacy and civil liberties
By: Orlan Lee
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780739167991
Subjects: Law and legislation; Right of Privacy; Data protection
Description: "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". -- BACKCOVER.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : crisis in the personal data collection complex; title: What ever became of the fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments?; title: From "collecting and transmitting credit information" to "assessing, attitude, motivation, and behavior"; title: Arbitrary and capricious standards will be used arbitrarily and capriciously; title: Validity of voluntary waiver of basic civil and constitutional rights in employment and financial transactions; title: Making a mockery of liberty of contract; title: Can Congress authorize a secret proprietary master file on every American?; title: The new frontier of civil liberties : mandatory voluntary waivers of civil and constitutional rights.