European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes july 1977 Tom Wicker of of wiretap 1v from 669 through some applications were made to Federal and state judges fat permission to wiretap or Bug Persona suspected of in seven is such applications were re i and most of the rejections were in the eavesdrop is particularly Lough a National commission Ort we roup in one prosecutor Al not found one judge who lakes the Lime to read an sex part wiretap Applina in other warrants to Lap arid Bug Are issued almost automatically by Federal and state judges who Are supposed to be primary Protection against improper intrusion and harassment by Law enforcement agencies and the that each application present probable came sufficient Dence for a arrest that a crime to being or is about Only part of the reason in of the omnibus crime control act a legitimated  that its proponents promised and which in Ai clearly shown in a new Pam tooling by Herman Schwarz published by Fie Field the act has resulted in widespread invasion of individual 1 rights  from 1988 throw state electronic swell put it balances James citizen privacy Mustbe guarded consider the Millstone it pro Vides one example but Only one of thou Sands of the and of abuses that led to last weeks report from the Federal privacy Protection study As a result of the commissions recommend some sorely needed reforms May yet James a urls new spa opened his mail one morning a few years ago u discover that his Automo bile insurance had been he was an undesirable he sought an he was sume because he was a professional and he knew How to fight he was Able to dig out this much a credit reporting service had turned up information from four sources that he was a bearded a drug that he had been evicted from three residences and that peace demonstrators slept in his Yard when he lived in the outraged newsman went to he sued the credit reporting and at last the truth emerged an investigator had spent a half hour trying to talk to three sources of he settled on one senile neighbor who apparently nursed a grudge against millstones Young son for playing Ball in his Yard the neighbor fabricated the talks from whole tie in West Gator made no attempt to verify anything before filing his damning Alory awarded the Millstone Case is not much of an for it had a reasonably Happy far More typical Are the examples far which the privacy study com Mission could find no witnesses these Are the people who do not to this what hit Why they were denied or refused or denied an Auto or turned Down for a it is doubtful that More than a Small fraction of one per cent of the american people have any realistic idea of the dossiers that can be put together about the commissions 600page report pro Vides a comprehensive look at where we stand in terms of our it is a sober ing with Only minimal and shout obtaining a an experienced investigator can fashion a detailed profile on almost any adult citizen who leads a fairly conventional Bank re lax Telephone credit card insurance Drivers licenses All these provide pieces of a human Jigsaw Puzzle that can be swiftly once the Pute is put to the citizen stands nakedly the report also looks to die in uie absence of reasonable the situation will get More ominous once we get into electronic fund As distinguished from old fashioned checks and our private lives will become even More vulnerable to the computers probing the science of data retrieval is sub in its to grapple with these the commission makes 162 specific recommend to us the commission has not plopped Down completely on the Side of the banker who is asked to make a loan has every right to ask reasonable questions of the Law enforce ment demands the keeping of criminal re insurance companies properly May investigate potential the in uie commissions is to find a balance Between individual Liberty and social the report is Loo and the legislative recommendations too to justify any immediate Blanket i like the for that would make the Fri gel a warrant before it examines a suspects Bank but i am doubtful that the individual involved in such an investigation should simultaneously be Given notice and the Legal capacity to contest the this Way lies needless frustration far at a first most of the proposals make great Good outrageous in the fashion of the i list one can be minimized by assuring every person of his right to know what his file sensible restrictions can be imposed and enforced by criminal sanctions on the careless Exchange of data among Dalac ueding a simple statute would protect us confidentiality of our Lon distance Calls and our cancelled can be done to restore thee Dan gered privacy of the american but Thea should be Megha fixed computers never and tech Doay never protective legislation plainly is and it is needed while per cent were i Forga Millag and drug k eavesdropping has a a tool against crime thai 2j St have refused to enact though title Iii slates to do yet 1 and longtime student Rhea Yesun list los x Able to write thai t Law enforcement lion has apparently of wiretap equipment by police i states which had not Given the tap that int particularly Field so Rife with for Day Lap to be extended columns comments Sway periods which permits precisely those continuous and indiscriminate ten the supreme court seemed to outlaw in the 1967 Berger taps placed in new York in we try special prosecutor Maurice Nadjary lasted 210 and 1m 1 Days while Schwartz very hundreds of thousands of innocent per sons overheard by taps acid bugs often unnecessarily placed and needlessly extended by unscrupulous tutors or careless judges or both is the picture graphically painted in this documented and though Schwartz necessarily cannot get such precise Al Greato prove he makes persuasive deductions that the situation is Fust As bad or wot a in the less supervised Field of National Secu Rity on the record he Schwartz it would make sense to revive the outright ban on All electronic eavesdrop Given the inertia of government Andlee demagoguery of that j unlikely in this crime fearing society so Schwartz suggests instead eliminate gambling and drug eaves which would eliminate 80 per cent of All taps and eliminate state since the worst abuses occur under Date diction z8 states already do without lapping and 1 limit the allowed duration of Ixia and eliminate the bugging of a room or whole House the most  form of i i even Short of such sweeping Refon Fui Schwartz advocates useful limited changes notifying persons whole been government damage payments if improper and heavy Lions against eavesdropping on Laws in an indignant president of the Fjeld further suggests that wiretap ought to be made Only in an adversary that there should be Independent Agency outside the Pra of Tim whose Job la would be to oppose cation before the court and whole it should be to take an Appeal i 1 very trial lawyer a that Parte Justuce a no to which it might be added a drop As presently is at to pm