Right to Privacy Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Right to Privacy Act - States that the Congress finds: (1) that an individual's privacy is directly affected by the extensive collection, maintenance, use and dissemination of personal information; (2) that the increasing use of computers and sophisticated information technology has greatly magnified the harm that can occur from these practices; (3) that an individual's opportunities to secure employment, insurance, credit and his right to due process, and other legal protections are endangered by these personal information systems, and (4) that in order to preserve the rights guaranteed by the first, third, fourth, fifth, ninth, and fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution, uniform Federal legislation is necessary to establish procedures to govern information systems containing records on individuals. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to insure safe-guards for personal privacy from recordkeeping organizations by adherence to specified principles of information practice. Requires any organization maintaining an information system that includes personal information to: (1) collect, maintain, use, and disseminate only personal information necessary to accomplish …