IP: 2 on credit-card cartel can release your info to ANYone

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Eric D. Williams" <eric () infobro com>
> To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: RE: Re: credit-card cartel can release your info to ANYone
> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:59:48 -0400
> Organization: Information Brokers, Inc.
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>
> While the alert in that message is indeed suspect the phone number given
> appears legitimate.
>
> In the August 2001 edition of Kiplinger's Personal Finance
> magazine <www.kiplinger.com>:
> "Call 888-567-8688 and ask the credit bureaus to block your credit files
> from being screened for preapproved offers of credit."
>
> That's the same phone no. and information that appeared in the forwarded 
> email
> message.
>
> Eric Williams, Pres.
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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 16:09:27 -0700
To: farber () cis upenn edu
From: "Robert M. McClure" <rmm () unidot com>
Subject: Re: IP: Re: credit-card cartel can release your info to ANYone

Dave, the problem is not what you can read into the fine points of the law.
The problem is that many banks, insurance companies, credit bureaus play
fast and loose with the letter of the law and even faster and looser with the
spirit of the law.
I know for a personal fact that credit reporting agencies are leaky as a
sieve, and that *none* of our good government operations seem to care.
Bob



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