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WASHINGTON (AP)- A study
prepared for Congress on the impact of
forthcoming technology asks: When
computers can accurately predict who
is most likely to commit crimes, should
society closely watch those people?.
Deny them jobs? Jail them?
The study, published yesterday by
the Office of Technology Assessment,
said computer technology already in
use and advances on the horizon raise a
host of'similar questions that must be
answered soon.
"These technical advances are
generating public policy issues at a rate
that may be outstripping the federal
government's ability to respond," the
OTA said. 'The office is an analytical
agency of Congress and made no
recommendations for answers to most
of the questions it raised.
CONSTITUTIONAL rights are being
jeopardized by new technology, the
report said, especially by the enhanced
ability of computers to record people's
activities and interests and to predict
their future behavior.
For example, with a device that
records what books someone checks out
from a library "an accurate profile of
an individual's interests and attitudes
could be provided by acompletedossier
on that person's reading habits," the
report said.
Information that is now unrecorded
will become collectable in computer
data banks, the report said.
"ELECTRONIC mail and electronic
point of sale systems (which record a
customer's purchases), for example,
collect and store more data than the
systems they replaced."
Under existing law, police are per-
mitted to watch daily public activity
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without a warrant. Even the envelopes
of the mail someone gets can be
studied.'
If the observation is extended to sur-
veillance of electronically delivered
mail-where, there is no distinction
between the outside envelope and the
inside message-and to the person's
financial transactions, recorded
through electronic funds transfer
systems, "much more data, some of it
of a highly personal nature, could be
collected in secret," the report said.
CONGRESS MUST someday decide,
it said, "whether such transactions are
to be considered public or private
behavior."
"Psychology-based" uses of com-
puters-including their use to predict
behavior-raise other questions. The
report said:
"Much research has been done on the
application of computer-based social
science and statistical models to files of
personal data and the result of
psychological tests in order to predict
behavior. Techniques are being studied
for detecting tendencies toward
juvenile delinquency, drunken driving
or violent anti-social behavior and for
security checks by the government."
BUSINESSES MAY some day use
such computer-based predictions to
decide whether to extend credit or in-
surance to people or give them jobs.
"On the other hand, society cannot
imprison a person who a computer
model predicts may someday rob a
bank," the report said. "But should that
knowledge be 'reasonable cause' to
monitor such a person closely or deny
employment."
Computers are already used( by
lawyers and prosecutors in compiling
dossiers on potential jurors and seeking
to predict how they will react in the jury
room.
As more personal data about- poten-
tial jurors becomes available, com-
puter-based predicting will become
more exact, the report said. As a result
"the entire concept of an 'impartial'
Jury as required by the Sixth Amen-
dment may be challenged,' the study
said.
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First bomb in weeks kills
one, wounds 20 in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon- A car bomb packed with steel nails exploded yester-
day on a shaded, residential lane in Christian East Beirut, killing one person
and wounding 20 others, police said.
It was the first bombing in the Christian sector of the divided city in six
weeks, and many residents feared it signaled another round of terrorist war-
fare between rival militias in the half-Christian, half Moslem nation.
That fear was bolstered later in the day by an unidentified caller to a
Western news agency who vowed revenge for yesterday's blast "with a more
violent explosion."
The bomb set 17 cars ablaze, heaved four of them 15 yards into a pe
grove and gouged a crater into the street that was large enough to bury half
of another car. It shattered windows and scattered debris over a five-square-
block area.
IRA bomb explodes
in London restaurant
LONDON- A Scotland Yard explosives expert was killed yesterday while
trying to defuse a bomb planted by IRA guerrillas in a fast-food restaurant
on London's crowded Oxford Street, police said.
Another bomb was found in a nearby department store and defused, police
said. The Irish Republican Army issued a statement in Belfast claiming
responsibility for the bombs.
The blast shattered the front of Wimpy's hamburger bar and caused panic
among hundreds of people on the street, London's most popular shopping
district. Police sealed off the area.
Police cleared the restaurant of 175 customers and staff after a man with
an\Irish accent gave a telephone warning of the bomb. But the explosives
expert, Kenneth Howorth, 49, was killed when the device exploded in a
basement toilet.
Costume designer Edith Head
dies of rare bone disease
HOLLYWOOD- Edith Head, whose costumes for glamorous stars such as
Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor won her a record eight Oscars, has died
of a rare bone disease.
The announcement was made yesterday by the designer's lawyer, John
Piggot, who said she died Saturday night of myelofibrosis myeloid
metaplasia, described as an inability of the bone marrow to produce blood.
"It was a fairly lengthy illness, with remissions during the time after she
haq blood transfusions," said Piggot. "She continued working until recen-
tly."
Like man Hollywood figures, Miss Head kept her age secret, but she was
believed to be in her 80s. She left no close relatives.
During her 50 years of dressing Hollywood's most famous stars, Miss Head
became a familiar figure herself. But although she enjoyed appearing on TV
talk shows, she was careful not to upstage the stars in the design salon.
33 Haitian boat people drown
HILLSBORO BEACH, Fla.- A sailboat crammed with Haitian refugees
seeking a better life in the United States capsized yesterday and 33 of the
"boat people" drowned-including four women who had been "badly clob-
bered."
The Coast Guard said 30-and possibly 34 other passengers survived by
swimming ashore-a distance of about a mile-after the homemade 30-foot
vessel was swamped in the pounding seas in the pre-dawn blackness.
An estimated 50,000 Haitians have fled the impoverished Caribbean nation
for the/Unfted States in the past two years. Many didn't make it The Reagan
administration announced an interdiction policy last month to stem the flow
of the so-called "boat people" into South Florida.
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