0l Page 2-Tuesday, October 27, 1981-The Michigan Daily Computer use will raise I-re Your cup boards crampe d? Sell your' valuables Classifieds 764-0557 social issues, stu 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 ANN ARBOR GOLD AND SILVER EXCHANGE 216 S. Fourth Ave.498-4059 co WE BUY r WANTED OLD AnyIttem Marked lO kt 14 kt- 18 krWArCHEs DENTAL GOLD FOREIGN GOLD GOLD METALS CLASS RINGS WEDDING BANDS EYEGLASS FRAMES GOLD COINS GOLD PINS GOLD CUFF LINKS BROKEN JEWELRYII ,$v DIAMONDS GOLD WATCHES EE Y SILVER we purchase any cut any shape GOLD CHAINS s -terlng eFlotware any color s'one .TeoSets' Jewelry * Industrial Sdysays 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. We pay by weight Hours: Mon. thru Sat 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM State certified scales IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports 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. 5-n Vol. XCII, No. 41 Tuesday, October 27, 1981 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Sub, scription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Saturday mornings. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE MICHIGAN DAILY. 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. 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