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Lexis-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.

An article in The NYT Sunday on criminal misuse of stolen and sold SS numbers says: "Such trade in information is legal, and regulation is difficult, perhaps even more so since a Federal appeals court ruling last week struck down restrictions and defended the 'chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech' on the new medium." "The freedom for market aggression is a wisely hidden by the freedom to argue." -- Wealth Through Capitalist Anarchy: Friedman's First Amendment