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Patriot Act search
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:56:09 -0400
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:06:47 -0400 From: Scott Alexander <salex () dsl cis upenn edu> Subject: Patriot Act search To: David Farber <dave () farber net> We have refinanced our house and today was the closing. Among the documents we had to look at was a long list of judgments against people with names remotely similar to ours. At the end it was a "Patriot Search" statement saying that our names did not appear. Presumably there are two aspects to this. I suspect that those having a false match on this list will not only make flying difficult as previously discussed on IP, but will also make getting a mortgage difficult. OTOH, I'd suspect that finding a title company willing to run a few extra searches would allow a terrorist cell to find which of their members were listed with very little risk. Best, Scott
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