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According to Joe Weckbacher <wekjo@ezo.net>:
:>What's wrong with private companies maintaining databases on individuals,
:>anyway?  There are many small databases which contain personal
:>information.  These databases are accessible to professionals such as
:>private investigators, and/or anyone willing to pay the hefty access
:>charges.
:
:>-- 
:>Frank Seipel
:>fseipel@freenet.columbus.oh.us
:
:I agree Frank. People daily hand out incredible information about
:themselves, and are upset when they find that the people they have
:given the info to have kept it. Almost all court proceedings are
:public. Anyone can walk in find and open your case file and copy the
:contents. If its a divorce/dissolution, all of your financial info is
:there and will remain there. Likewise obtaining, for $3, a copy of
:your driver's license or vehicle registration.
:


Actually, the problem isn't that someone is keeping the info for many
folk, but that they sell it to others.  I would propose that info gathered
by any one company should be restricted _to_ that company, and used only
for the purposes indicated to me when the information was gathered.
-- 
:s Larry W. Virden                 INET: lvirden@cas.org
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