U I professor warns on privacy as computers spread
Iowa City professor John P. Robinson warns that growing computer use by government and industry could enable detailed consumer profiling through electronic funds transfers. He advocates safeguards, data access rights, and cryptographic measures to curb abuse while noting privacy threats are rising.
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Grocery chains lead coffee boycott across markets
United Press International reports a widening coffee boycott as chains urge customers to swap for tea or cocoa to curb rising costs. Liberal Markets distributes 300,000 flyers while Shopwell offers coupons. coffee prices climb to about 30 to 35 cents per cup, and major suppliers raise ground coffee to $2.91 a pound with Folger at $3.08.
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Births and historical milestones on January fifth
On January 5, 1779 Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak, was born. Notable events include Nellie Tayloe Ross becoming the first woman governor in 1925, Pope Paul VI meeting Athenagoras in 1964, Dubcek rising in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Ford naming a CIA inquiry commission in 1975. A thought by William Somerset Maugham on freedom follows.
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