Path: utzoo!dciem!client1!mmt
From: mmt@client1.DRETOR.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: City Directory?
Message-ID: <2721@client1.DRETOR.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 15:12:57 GMT
Distribution: tor
Organization: DCIEM, Toronto, Canada
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Does anyone know anything about a company called "MIGHT DIRECTORIES"
Div or R.L.Polk & Co. Ltd"?  We have received a slip headed
"Important Request from the publisher of the local city directory"
to provide them with a list of the occupants, their occupations, and
employers for the house, along with the phone number and whether the
house is owned or rented.  This seems a lot more than should be going
into a city directory.  Are these people legitimate?  Is it reasonable
to fill this slip out in whole or part and return it, or is there a
significant privacy issue here?  If this is a city directory at all,
why is a private company involved?  I realize that the information might
well get into private hands even from a publicly owned database, but
the idea of giving it directly to a private company doesn't seem right.
Anyway, I'm going to wait a few days before returning the slip, if I
do so at all, to see whether there is any useful net reaction.
-- 
Martin Taylor (mmt@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048
If the universe transcends formal methods, it might be interesting.
     (Steven Ryan).