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- Path: sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:03:14 -0500 (EST)
- From: "Dave Niebuhr, BNL CCD, 516-282-3093" <NIEBUHR@bnlcl6.bnl.gov>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Privacy Concerns and the So-Called Privacy Advocates
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.119.4@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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- A question just crossed my mind. When Caller-ID is in the process
- of being instituted in an area, the privacy-mavens scream bloody
- murder. Yet, with the known (I suppose) wide-spread usage of SSNs
- as identifiers, where are they?
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- People I talk to are surprised when I tell them that if I knew their
- SSN I could find out all kinds of information about them and possibly
- do them irreprable harm if I wanted to.
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- Is this a mis-guided sense of "security" or what? Does it spring
- from the original Social Security for being a supplement to retirement
- funds and the general public doesn't realize just how much businesses
- know about one or can find out if so desired.
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- I'm not a complete privacy freak, but I do know when to give information
- and when not to do so.
-
- Dave
- Dave Niebuhr Internet: niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 (516)-282-3093
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