Re: Russian Hackers Offer Databases

Here's the URL's you posted.

http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/elj/jilt/dp/1eire/eire1.htm http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/elj/jilt/dp/

It is disgusting how our privacy in the U.S. is being ignored by our states, our federal government, and by private companies, especially financial and insurance companies. Just this morning, there was a TV news story showing how these practices are causing 3/4 of a million cases of fraudulent identity resulting in ruined lives for those whose identity is usurped. That doesn't even address the millions of cases of mistakes or the fraudulent identity SSN's of the illegal aliens here.

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Arvin Meyer

Brendan Reynolds wrote in message ...


>I checked out that URL, George, and I'm genuinely shocked. Your state

>governments have been doing something that I believe would be illegal in

>every EC country.

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>Of course, EC law isn't perfect either. Last I heard (and it's possible

 that


>things could have changed, because I don't follow this stuff very closely)

>the law covered only personal information stored electronically. Some

>organizations were working around it by transferring their lists to manual

>card indexes.

>

>Last time this subject came up, someone requested more information and I

>posted an URL. I can't remember the URL now, but I found it by doing a Web

>search on 'Data Protection Act'. I believe the URL I posted, which had a

 lot


>of information on the Act, was one of the UK university Web sites.

>

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>Brendan Reynolds

>brenreyn_at_indigo.ie

>http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/susumi/433

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>George Shears <gjshears_at_prodigy.net> wrote in message

>news:87k8l6$2adk$1_at_newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com...

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>> Brendan Reynolds wrote in message <7nWm4.9314$J9.5029_at_news.indigo.ie>...

>> <snip>

>> Here in Ireland there arelaws about what you can and can not do with

>> personal information stored on a computer.

>> <snip>

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>> Gee, Brendan.  Here in the States we don't need no Russian Hackers

 because


>> our own government is fulfilling the *Russian Hacker* role and peddling

 the


>> info directly.

>>

>>    http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/0001/14/2edit/2edit.htm

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>> George

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