FTC Charges Credit Reporting Company

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1 total messages Started by Jim Haynes Fri, 15 Jan 1993 19:53

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Author: Jim Haynes
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 19:53

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I posted this to comp.privacy, then realized that comp.society.privacy
is where the action is...

A little item in today's newspaper says the Federal Trade Commission
has charged Trans Union Corp. with using sensitive, federally protected
credit information from its consumer database to compile mailing lists
it sold to telemarketers and direct mail operations, "for purposes not
permitted under the law."

Then there was a piece in the next day's news about, as I recall, TRW
voluntarily ceasing some similar wrongdoing.  -- haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Ya can talk all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!" "No it
aint!  But ya gotta know the territory!"
	Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"

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