[2987] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Can you say "fraud"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Ausman)
Thu Sep 19 02:11:56 1996
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
cc: ausman@wired.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:21:18 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:57:45 -0700
From: Jim Ausman <ausman@wired.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
No, discussion not closed. There is no need for anyone outside of a government
or financial agency to have your Social Security Number. And they should have
to ask to get that.
Jim Ausman
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I don't speak for Wired and they don't speak for me.
>
>``The information displayed in the P-TRAK file is an aggregation readily
>available from public information sources such as telephone directories
>(in print and CD-ROM format) and public records maintained by government
>agencies.
>
>``Through its actions, LEXIS-NEXIS is balancing the privacy concerns of
>the public with the legitimate needs of legal, business and government
>professionals for access to accurate sources of publicly available
>information. By discontinuing the display of Social Security numbers in
>P-TRAK and only providing information that is already available to the
>public from other sources, LEXIS-NEXIS believes it has responsibly met
>the expressed concerns of the public.''
>
>Discussion closed?
