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Privacy as it relates to recordkeeping systems containing personal information has been the subject of government scrutiny, legislation and public debate for several years. The Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems, appointed by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1971, produced a report 2 years later that called for restraints on the operation of computerized data banks having information on identifiable persons. The Privacy Act of 1974, which focuses primarily on government data banks, established a Privacy Protection study Commission to examine the standards and procedures needed to enforce the protection of personal information in data banks in general. The Commission is expected to submit its final report to Congress and the President by June 1977. Privacy bills are pending in approximately 35 state legislatures and Representatives Koch and Goldwater introduced a privacy bill, H. R. 1984, in the 94th Congress.
In an effort to communicate timely information on this important topic to member companies, four papers on the subject of privacy that were presented at LOMA’S 1975 Annual Conference are being published here prior to the proceedings of other Conference concurrent sessions. These papers, which discuss various aspects of H. R. 1984 and how they might affect the operations and systems of insurance companies, were presented during the session entitled “Impact of Privacy Legislation on the Insurance Industry,” chaired by A. Douglas Murch, FSA, Senior Vice President, Prudential. Also included is a bibliography on privacy compiled by the Systems and Procedures Division and the LOMA library.
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