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New York Times via DeseretNews - Group says ads manipulate children with psychology.
Deploring what they see as an unfair and conflict-ridden manipulation of the young, a group of psychologists and other professionals has called on the American Psychological Association to restrict the use of psychological research by advertisers pitching toys, video games, snack food and other products to children.
The letter, written by Gary Ruskin, who heads Commercial Alert, a Washington-based advocacy group, and Allen Kanner, a clinical psychologist at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, Calif., was sent to the association's president late last month. It urges the association to issue a formal denunciation of the use of psychological techniques in marketing and advertising to children, and asks for amendments to the association's code of ethics that would address the issue.
Columbus Dispatch - Congress takes 2nd try at privacy law Short term link.
Even as the federal government faces a court challenge over restrictions on states releasing driver's-license information, Congress has adopted another law that clamps down on the same information -- but in a different way.
On Nov. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a suit by South Carolina on the federal government's first sweeping privacy law on motor-vehicle records.
That law bars states and their employees from releasing personal information from driver's licenses and other records. The federal law was passed in response to the 1989 killing of actress Rebecca Schaeffer by a stalker.
Boston Globe Online / Sunday | Learning / Colleges policing the Net.
The Birmingham News via Alabama Live - Shelby: Germans' privacy greater.
Sen. Richard Shelby wouldn't say how he got it, but the Alabama Republican has a document that he says illustrates just how weak the consumer privacy protections are in a landmark financial services bill moving through Congress.
The document - an agreement between Citigroup and its German affiliate - outlined the consumer privacy safeguards the financial conglomerate had to follow in order to market its VISA card in Germany.
Safeguards, said Shelby, that American consumers don't have.
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National Archives and Records Administration - Privacy Act Issuances.
The Privacy Act Issuances, 1995 and 1997 Compilations Online via GPO Access contain descriptions of Federal agency systems of records maintained on individuals and rules agencies follow to assist individuals who request information about their records.
The two sources of Privacy Act Notices are: the Privacy Act Issuances, 1995 and 1997 Compilations and the Federal Register which has updates to the most recent (1997) Compilation.
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