Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 11:43:04 EST Errors-To: Comp-privacy Error Handler From: Computer Privacy Digest Moderator To: Comp-privacy@PICA.ARMY.MIL Subject: Computer Privacy Digest V3#060 Computer Privacy Digest Thu, 21 Oct 93 Volume 3 : Issue: 060 Today's Topics: Moderator: Dennis G. Rears Re: Finding someone Re: Finding someone Re: Digital Detective At Your Service Re: Digital Detective At Your Service Re: Clinton Health Care Plan US Privacy Council Seminar The Computer Privacy Digest is a forum for discussion on the effect of technology on privacy. The digest is moderated and gatewayed into the USENET newsgroup comp.society.privacy (Moderated). Submissions should be sent to comp-privacy@pica.army.mil and administrative requests to comp-privacy-request@pica.army.mil. Back issues are available via anonymous ftp on ftp.pica.army.mil [129.139.160.133]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carl Oppedahl Newsgroups: alt.privacy,comp.society.privacy,misc.legal Subject: Re: Finding someone Date: 18 Oct 1993 16:06:21 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC In Rajiv A Manglani writes: >I am trying to find a lost relative. All I have is his name, birth date, and >social security number. How might I get an address or phone number? No problem writing to your relative. The Social Security Administration will forward your letter to him. Call them for details; basically you write a letter, put it in an unsealed envelope, write the SSN and name on the outside, and deliver that envelope to some SSA address in Baltimore. They then mail it to the last known address. -- Carl Oppedahl AA2KW (patent lawyer) 1992 Commerce Street #309 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598-4412 voice 212-777-1330 ------------------------------ From: Larry Kolodney Newsgroups: alt.privacy,comp.society.privacy,misc.legal Subject: Re: Finding someone Date: 19 Oct 1993 00:29:53 -0400 Organization: The Devil's Advocate In Rajiv A Manglani writes: >I am trying to find a lost relative. All I have is his name, birth date, and >social security number. How might I get an address or phone number? >Rajiv There are many private companies that will do this for about $200. One is called Equifax. Another is People Locator. They both have 800 numbers. -- larry kolodney:(lkk@panix.com): &#+!*&$+!?&%+!*&^_)*&#%)*&^%#+&&^_)*&#%)*&^%#+&&#+!*&$+!?&%+!*&^_)*&#%) Coming to you from Brooklyn, NY, where the weak are killed and eaten. ------------------------------ From: Larry Kolodney Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy,alt.privacy,misc.consumers,misc.legal,misc.misc Subject: Re: Digital Detective At Your Service Date: 19 Oct 1993 00:28:33 -0400 Organization: The Devil's Advocate In Ron Mura writes: >> I find this hard to believe. The costs that were posted in the rest >> of this article were far in excess to what I pay for similar services >> from a commercial vendor. In particular, my vendor does nationwide >> SS# searches for $10-15 a shot, not the $60 this guy is asking. >Besides the cost, I'm curious about the availability of the data. If >this information is so readily available (at least to those who know >how to get it), why hasn't some enterprising outfit exploited it more >to make money? Why doesn't America OnLine or some such service let >you type in an SSN and get a report right back to the screen? The outfit we use *is* making money. They are a commercial vendor accessable thru Compuserve. They charge about $10 a search for SS# searches. -- larry kolodney:(lkk@panix.com): &#+!*&$+!?&%+!*&^_)*&#%)*&^%#+&&^_)*&#%)*&^%#+&&#+!*&$+!?&%+!*&^_)*&#%) Coming to you from Brooklyn, NY, where the weak are killed and eaten. ------------------------------ Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy,alt.privacy,misc.consumers,misc.legal,misc.misc From: poivre Subject: Re: Digital Detective At Your Service Followup-To: comp.society.privacy,alt.privacy,misc.consumers,misc.legal,misc.misc Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 07:11:12 GMT CHRISTIAN S MORLEY (csmorley@titan.ucs.umass.edu) wrote: : Is it just me or does anyone else find this service a tad frightening? Not just you, me too. Its a goldmine for stalkers! : -- : --------------csmorley@student.umass.edu (Christian S. Morley)--------------- : "Nietzsche said `What does not kill me only serves to make me stronger...' : My version is...What does not kill me only serves to make me sleep until : 3:30 the next afternoon." -Jim Carroll -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- poivre@netcom.com | <><><><><><><>DISCLAIMER<><><><><><><> lychees@marble.bu.edu | All opinions in this article are mine and | don't represent anything of anyone else. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy From: miller@cs.rochester.edu Subject: Re: Clinton Health Care Plan Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 16:48:20 EDT the password can be the users dna; you don't need to be conscious to supply it. I like the idea of having the only copy of one's medical history on the "card", the key is to make sure the "card" cannot be easily misplaced, e.g. emplanted subcutaneously. But really, I don't like the idea of the government, essentially, barcoding me. Only one reason I'm against national health care. ------------------------------ Organization: CPSR Washington Office From: Dave Banisar Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 15:33:09 EST Subject: US Privacy Council Seminar US Privacy Council Seminar 10/22 *********************************************************** [please post] US Privacy Council Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series "Privacy and the National Informational Infrastructure" Patricia Faley US Office of Consumer Affairs CPSR Washington Office Friday, October 22, 1993 12:00 - 2:00 pm Pat Faley is Acting Director of the United States Office of Consumer Affairs and Chair of the Working Group on Privacy, Information Policy Committee, Information Infrastructure Task Force. She will discuss the Clinton Administration's privacy proposals for the NII for the NII and for the health care reform program. Following Ms. Faley's talk, there will be a general meeting of the US Privacy Council to discuss the agenda for the Clinton administration on privacy issues such as health care, the SSN, the Clipper Chip, and amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. CPSR Washington Office 666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE Suite 303 Washington, DC 202/544-9240 (one block from the Eastern Market metro) In cooperation with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. For more information on the US Privacy Council, please contact Evan Hendricks at 202-829-3660. [if you would like to be notified of future USPC Seminars, please send a note with e-mail address to banisar@washofc.cpsr.org] *********************************************************** ------------------------------ End of Computer Privacy Digest V3 #060 ******************************