Editing Auditing (Scientology) (section)

=== Misuse of confidential information ===

Auditing sessions are permanently recorded in the form of handwritten notes stored in folders called ''preclear folders'', which are supposed to be kept private and confidential. Judge Paul Breckenridge, in ''[[Church of Scientology of California v. Armstrong]]'', noted that [[Mary Sue Hubbard]] (the plaintiff in that case) "authored the infamous order '[[Guardian's Office|GO]] 121669', which directed culling of supposedly confidential P.C. files/folder for the purposes of internal security".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/breckenridge-decision.html |title=Memorandum of Intended Decision, case No. C 420153 |date=June 20, 1984}}</ref> This directive was later canceled because it was not part of Scientology as written by L. Ron Hubbard. Bruce Hines has noted in an interview with [[Hoda Kotb]] that Scientology's collecting of personal and private information through auditing can possibly leave an adherent vulnerable to potential "blackmail" should they ever consider disaffecting from the cult.<ref>{{cite interview |first=Bruce |last=Hines |interviewer=Hoda Kotb |title=Inside Scientology |work=Countdown with Keith Olbermann |publisher=CNBC}}</ref> A number of sources have claimed that information gleaned from preclear folders have indeed been used for intimidation and harassment.<ref>{{cite news |first=Steven |last=Girardi |title=Witnesses Tell of Break-ins, Conspiracy |work=Clearwater Sun |date=1982-05-09 |quote=Commissioners heard also from a former Guardian Office worker who said she used the sect's "confessional files" during several campaigns to discredit defected Scientologists |pages=1A}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=John |last=Barnes |title=Sinking the Master Mariner |journal=Sunday Times Magazine |date=1984-10-28}}</ref><ref name=Wakefield09>{{cite book|last=Wakefield|first=Margery |author-link=Margery Wakefield |title=The Road to Xenu : Life Inside Scientology|date=2009 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=9780557090402 |page=188 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R_kkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA188|access-date=5 January 2016}}</ref>{{r|atack|pages=254,276,277,332,333,340,393}}