According to the speaker, even America is suffering from economic depression, th

The economic slump is the biggest problem facing Americans today. Despite all the talks about deficit spending, oil prices, unemployment, and the impending depression, Americans continue to spend large sums of money on goods which are frivolous and damaging to the country.

The potential of computers for increasing the control of organizations or society over their members and for invading the privacy of those members has caused considerable concern. The privacy issue has been raised most insistently with respect to creation and maintenance of data files that assemble information about persons from a multitude of sources.