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: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Subject: Proposed CDC Guidelines Threaten Privacy!
: Date: Friday, December 11, 1998 8:25 AM
:
: 1. HIV Names Reporting
: 2. Civil Asset Forfeiture
:
: 1. HIV Names Reporting: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday
: released draft guidelines for the surveillance of HIV cases that would
: violate our most basic privacy rights. In these guidelines, the CDC
: recommends that states institute case reporting of people who test
positive
: for HIV by name rather than using a system of unique identifiers.
:
: The proposed CDC guidelines are bad for public health and threaten to
: destroy our most basic privacy rights. Study after study confirms that
: mandatory names reporting discourages people from getting tested for HIV.
: A recent article in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical
: Association makes clear that anonymous testing is the most effective
means
: of insuring HIV positive people receive the life-saving treatment they
: need.
:
: Although the CDC recommends that states maintain the availability of
: anonymous testing, it well knows that the guidelines are likely to have
the
: opposite effect. Nationally, ten states have eliminated anonymous testing
: after starting names reporting.
:
: The CDC is accepting public comment on these guidelines through January
11,
: 1999. Take action today! Send a FREE FAX to the CDC stating that HIV
names
: reporting violates privacy and ignores scientific evidence from the ACLU
: web site at:
:
: http://www.aclu.org/congress/congress.html
:
: 2. Civil Asset Forfeiture: Imagine that the police had the right to seize
: your property -- your home, your car, your business, your cash -- and
you
: hadn't even been arrested, charged or convicted of a crime. Believe it or
: not, under the law of civil asset forfeiture, such conduct by the police
is
: perfectly legal.
:
: Currently asset forfeiture is used by federal law enforcement officials
as
: a dream way to fill their coffers by seizing assets allegedly used in a
: crime. But asset forfeiture has become a nightmare for many Americans who
: have been accused of a crime but have not been proven guilty. In many
: cases, even when the accused citizens are found innocent, they face an
: expensive struggle with government bureaucrats to recover their property.
: Many times they are unsuccessful in ever recovering their property!
:
: In anticipation of action on this critical issue in the upcoming
Congress,
: the ACLU has purchased an ad in the New York Times to raise public
: awareness and mobilize grassroots action. You can see a copy of the ad
and
: send a FREE FAX to your members of Congress by visiting the ACLU web site
: at:
:
: http://www.aclu.org/features/nytimesad121198.html
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