Article: Another reason for data laws

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/10/BUGO4M8LB148.DTL

David Lazarus
San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, November 10, 2006

As rental-car giant Hertz prepares to go public next week, the company 
seems to be having an unusually difficult time keeping confidential info 
under wraps.

In a regulatory filing on Wednesday, Hertz Global Holdings said it had 
dropped Deutsche Bank from its underwriting team after "several e-mails" 
discussing the $1.5 billion initial public offering were inadvertently 
sent by the bank to about 175 institutional clients.

Meanwhile, the names and Social Security numbers of an undisclosed number 
of Hertz workers were found last month on the home computer of a former 
employee of the company.

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