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Fringe: legality of posting PII data in VA
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:59:40 -0500
Judge lets privacy advocate keep Social Security numbers on Web site http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9113642 Can a state government prohibit an individual from posting Social Security numbers online that were easily and legally obtained from government Web sites? The answer, a federal judge in Virginia ruled last week, is a definite 'No,' at least for Betty "BJ" Ostergren, a privacy advocate who operates a Web site that posts Social Security numbers obtained from public records. Ostergren's postings are part of a campaign to show how easy it is to access very personal information on the Web. In a memorandum issued last Friday http://www.acluva.org/docket/pleadings/ostergren_opinion.pdf , Judge Robert Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that it would be unconstitutional for the state of Virginia to force Ostergren to remove from her site Social Security numbers that she legally obtained from public records. A memorandum opinion does not create a legal precedent. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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- Fringe: legality of posting PII data in VA Henry Brown (Aug 27)
- Re: Fringe: legality of posting PII data in VA George Toft (Aug 28)