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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: What is private information?
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Date: 15 Jan 91 08:47:41 GMT
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Jeff Rothfeder of BUSINESS WEEK has collected a fairly substantial
number of accounts of this sort of discrimination -- employment,
housing, medical, etc. -- taking place.  He has written about it in
both cover stories and shorter pieces.  In the California Legislature,
bills were introduced to curtain landlords using databases to 
discriminate against "undesirable" tenants (i.e., those who complained
about maintenance, illegal rent hikes, etc.).  The bills were passed
but enforcement remains difficult.  I'm glad you're so ethical, Iain,
or out of touch.  It makes you a better person.

Bob Jacobson