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Article #232Re: More on SSNs as used by VA DMV
From: Mikki Barry
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:49
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:49
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The good news is that after testimony at a VA Senate Subcommittee by Dave Banisar of CPSR, two of us from InterCon, and many other very annoyed people, the Subcommittee voted to draft legislation removing the SSN from the VA Driver's license. They also are looking into setting up an "Information Czar" to overlook electronic privacy issues. Seems the subcommittee was very frightened by the spectre of fraud and SSN's. They were especially amused by Banisar's recounting of a story of a fat farm selling customer information to a chocolate factory :-) Bottom line is, they believed that the SSN should be kept more private, and should not be used as a default identifier.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:49:18 -0500 From: Mikki Barry <ooblick@intercon.com> Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy Subject: Re: More on SSNs as used by VA DMV Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.117.5@pica.army.mil> Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Sender: comp-privacy@pica.army.mil Approved: comp-privacy@pica.army.mil X-Submissions-To: comp-privacy@pica.army.mil X-Administrivia-To: comp-privacy-request@pica.army.mil X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 117, Message 5 of 9 Lines: 19