[995] in Cypherpunks
Re: McCarthy lives!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Michael Diehl)
Wed Jun 9 01:37:01 1993
From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
To: gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 23:17:48 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: tcmay@netcom.com, cypherpunks@toad.com, gnu@toad.com, markoff@nyt.com
In-Reply-To: <9306090050.AA03345@toad.com> from "John Gilmore" at Jun 8, 93 05:50:55 pm
According to John Gilmore:
> Tim, I'll be glad to teach you how to file a Privacy Act request.
> It's pretty simple, and it works on all Federal agencies. You get all
> records they are keeping on you, with some limited exceptions -- and
> for almost all of those, you get notified of the withholding. If you
> can identify one or a small number of agencies that might be keeping
> this "list", we can see if you are on it. And if we find the list, we
> can probably get the whole thing under the Freedom of Information Act.
I would think a quick tutorial on this would be of general interest. Could you
find some time....? Thanx in advance.
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