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To: oldbrowser

A good chunk of this already exists, particularly if it is considered information available under the FOIA. Went on-line to see what was out there under my name and found all my addresses since 1960, every place I had ever worked, information on my marriage, divorce, children’s names and dates of birth, picture of my current vehicle with insurance information and mileage. For a few more dollars I could also have checked to see if I had had any recorded arrests or convictions. There were also some early 1940 census reports which had the name, addresses and social security numbers of my bio father, grandparents, aunts and uncles.


20 posted on 10/22/2013 9:45:17 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A

was it free? was it all online?


69 posted on 10/23/2013 1:30:56 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Grams A

Time was it would’ve been illegal to sell such data but the mass marketers heavily pressured the government in the 1980s. And figures in government came to realize that it was easier to utilize such databases if they were held (in triplicate) in the hands of private companies (”the government maintains no such database on our citizens, blah blah blah”).

They aren’t supposed to be selling your social security number with that data but it happens.

And then so does rampant identity theft.


78 posted on 10/24/2013 6:33:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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