Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:42:27 -0500
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Privacy group says Credit Bureaus are selling YOUR personal
 records to IRS, FBI
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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:11:35 +0200 (EET)
From: Jei <jei@cc.hut.fi>
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
cc: politech@politechbot.com
Subject:  Privacy group says Credit Bureaus are selling YOUR personal 
records to IRS, FBI (fwd)

< http://www.hackinthebox.org/article.php?sid=4926 >

Privacy group says Credit Bureaus are selling YOUR personal records 
to IRS, FBI.
from L33tdawg
Thu, Jan 17 @ 01:14 PM (Reads: 34)
Source: PCWorld

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit seeking the
release of information involving the purchase of individuals' private
information by U.S. government agencies from companies that sell personal
data.

In a statement yesterday, the Washington-based privacy advocacy group said
it brought suit under the Freedom of Information Act after several agencies
under the Departments of the Treasury and Justice failed to provide EPIC
with information about contracts with private profiling companies. Those
companies, most notably ChoicePoint Asset in Alpharetta, Georgia, and
Experian, the Orange, California-based subsidiary of GUS, sell information
on U.S. citizens, including credit information, property records, state
motor vehicle records, and marriage and divorce data, to these agencies, the
group said.



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