Would-be investor runs afoul of Patriot Act

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:50:46 -0700
> From: Richard Perlman <perl () lucent com>
> Subject: Would-be investor runs afoul of Patriot Act
> To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com
>
>
> Dave,
>
> In today's Chronicle there is an interesting column about impacts of the
> Patriot act on what would not normally be though of as "terrorist" related
> activities.  In the article noted below, columnist Kathleen Pender describes
> what happens when the Patriot Act intersects with entralized, private, data
> sources about our lives.
>
> Richard
> ============================================================================
>
> Would-be investor runs afoul of Patriot Act
> Kathleen Pender,  San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, August 28, 2003
>
> Shortly after he graduated from college in May, French Clements of San Jose
> tried to open an online brokerage account with Harrisdirect, where his
> stepfather has an account.
>
> A day after he completed the online application, however, he got a brief e-
> mail from Harrisdirect saying, "We regret to inform you that we are unable
> to approve your application at this time: The customer's identity not
> properly authenticated per the USA Patriot Act."
>
> Clements was stunned, and so was his mother, Alayne Yellum. "Maybe they
> don't like people named French," she says.
>
> Changing his first name to Freedom would not help.
>
> Clements is an unintended victim of Section 326 of the Patriot Act...
>
> See
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/28/BU298595.DTL&type=business

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