orried about "potential abuses" due to the increasingly frequent use of computers to "store and retrieve personal data..."
             The Department of Justice outlined the four basic policy objectives put forward in the original 1974 legislation; one, to "restrict disclosure" of personal records that are kept by agencies; two, to give citizens the right to access those agency records on themselves; three, citizens have the right to see "amendment of agency records... [When they] are not accurate, relevant, timely or complete"; and four, the bill established a code of "fair information practices" that agencies must comply with when collecting, maintaining, and disseminating personal records.
             Additional background into federal responses to citizen privacy issues: Some background for the original need for the privacy law dates back to the 1960s. According to a University of Michigan scholarly paper (Walker, 2000), in 1966 Congress passed the Freedom of Information in order that citizens might have a tool to request and retrieved public information the government might otherwise want to shield. In 1967 (in Katz v. U.S.) a U.S. Supreme Court decision – by reversin
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