I believe the folks at EPIC played a key part in this move by Lexis/Nexis. -Declan Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 16-Jun-96 More info on this? by "Deranged Mutant"@unix.a
L exis-Nexis, one of the nation's leading private information brokers, has discontinued a new online offering that provided access to millions of individuals' Social Security numbers, after an onslaught of complaints from customers and the credit information bureau that originally supplied the data.
The service, which was offered by the company for 10 days before it was discontinued Monday, was one feature of the new "Lexis-Nexis P-Trak Person Locator" that Lexis-Nexis had developed to attract new business from law firms and law-enforcement agencies.