Notes and References

 

1. The plant closing law was originally part of a general trade bill which President Reagan vetoed in the spring of 1988. The final version, which became law without President Reagan's signature, is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, PL 100-379

2. Taylor, T., 1955, Grand Inquest, (Simon and Schuster: New York)

3. Wilcox, Clair, 1960, Public Policy Toward Business, (Richard D. Irwin, Inc.: Homewood, Illinois)

4. Gellhorn, W., C. Byse and P. Strauss, 1979, Administrative Law, (The Foundation Press, Inc.: Mineola)

5. The information policy concerning various consumer credit legislation is contained in: Redden, K. R. and J. McClellan, 1982, Federal Regulation of Consumer-Credit Relations, (The Michie Company: Charlottesville)

6. OSHA mandated the disclosure in 1983 with the publication of the Hazard Communication Standard.

7. See reference 4.

8. Stevenson, R. B. Jr, 1980, Corporations and Information, (The John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore)

9. Prosser, W. L., 1960, Privacy, 48, California Law Review, 383. Professor Prosser's ideas are incorporated into Restatement (Second) of Torts.

10. For a summary see: Freedman, W., 1987, The Right of Privacy in the Computer Age, (Quorum Books:New York) 11. For a discussion of the conflict between efficiency and privacy in the sense of being able to withhold information see: Posner, R., 1981, The Economics of Justice, (Harvard University Press: Cambridge)

12. Chrysler attempted to block the release of employment data under FOIA. See: Chrysler Corporation V. Brown, 99 Sup. Ct. 1705 (1979). The economic incentive for this action in discussed in reference 4.

13 An individual does not reveal his or her identity electronically when using a blind signature. See: Chaum, David, 1992, Achieving Electronic Privacy, Scientific American, Aug, pp 96-101. This raises the cost of obtaining the information by other means and in many cases the cost would be prohibitive.

14. Staff, 1980, Statistical Policy Working Paper 6, Office of Federal Statistical Policy and Standards, US Department of Commerce