ay, however, there are some 48 million individual systems world-wide, and growth is expected at a rapid pace for some time.
Dockrill also details the usual concerns about invasion of privacy by computer and finds that many of these scenarios focus upon deliberate efforts of governmental agencies, cloaked within their administrative powers, to amass and utilize more and more information concerning individuals or the activities of individuals or organizations. Certain specific proposals have caused particular concern, such as that for the establishment of a National Data Center in the early 1970s. Dockrill then notes:
Throughout the literature, the shared concern appears to be about the growth in governmental powers in this area and the widespread development of private organizations which collect and disseminate, generally for a fee, both personal and financial information relating to individuals (Dockrill, 1987, 547-548).
The specific fear is that databases will be used to make breaches of confidentiality or disclosures of information either through the deliberate efforts
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