A person who voluntarily fills out a form. takes a psychological test. or has a physical examination may not consider or anticipate that confidential information resulting from these acts may well wind up in a computer and follow him for the rest of his life. affecting the course of his life. One of the more startling examples of Government invasion of privacy was the Executive ordernow fortunately rescindedwhich gave the Department of Agriculture the power to Inspect Federal tax returns of farmers "needed for statistical purposes." We are all affected by the indiscriminate use of data collectedthrough credit records that often contain misinformation or computer mistakes: through health record data banks used by life. health and accident Insurance companies. through bank records. military records. school records. and juvenile records. There is even a Government controlled data bank of information on children of migrant farmworkers. Intelligence gathering operations are carried out by some 20 Federal agencies and by State. county. and city agencies. There are many more examples of data collecting mechanisms such as airline computers. television surveys. psychiatric reports. and polygraph tests.