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- Path: 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
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- X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 117, Message 5 of 9
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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.
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- 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 :-)
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- 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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