Alan F. Westin is Professor of Public Law and Government with Columbia University's Department of Political Science. His main areas of research address privacy, office automation, and employee fair procedure/EEO issues, and the use of new information technologies to expand the distribution of public information to citizens and the voluntary sector. For the past three years he served as the academic advisor for national public and leadership surveys on privacy. He has authored or edited 26 books including The Changing Workplace: A Guide to the People, Organizations, and Regulatory Aspects of Office Technology; Individual Rights in the Corporation: A Reader on Employee Rights; and Computers, Health Care, and Citizen Rights: Report of the Project on Medical Records and Citizen Rights.