On 5/18/05, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> wrote:
Good NYTimes article on privacy, identity theft, and easy correlation of data in public records. Usual Suspect Professor Avi Rubin at Johns Hopkins has his grad students demonstrating things you can find out. Betty Ostergren's "Virginia Watchdog" website http://www.opcva.com/watchdog/ reinforces complaints about public records privacy by outing the records of public officials to make her points to them.
[NYTimes articles usually require free registration; I'm not sure if there's currently a "cypherpunks" userID there, but I think some of the strings following the ? in the URL indicate that you don't need registration if you use this URL..]
there is also 'bugmenot.com', last time i tried it took about the 16th ID, but it worked. -- Michael
Bill Stewart