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From: ian@airs.UUCP (Ian Lance Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: What is private information?
Message-ID: <1147@airs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 06:45:56 GMT
References: <3566@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <5775@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> <14285@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In article <14285@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:
>
>People applying for work are regularly denied employment based on past
>filings for workers compensation (injuries on the job), but the evidence
>is apochryphal...it seldom makes it into print!  Same for applicant
>renters who have challenged a landlord's upkeep, etc.  These databases
>are more public, available usually only to landlords.  Doctors have
>databases about patients who have filed malpractice suits, and will
>refuse to attend to these patients' needs.

If the evidence is apocryphal, then I assume the problem is as well? :-).
Seriously, do you have any documentation of any sort for this?  I'm
somewhat inclined to believe it, but I know that if I showed this
posting to anybody who was not a conspiracy-theory buff they would
think it was hogwash.  I have worked at a small company in which I was
involved in employment decisions, I am a landlord of sorts, and my
mother is a doctor; none of us have ever seen such information or been
offered access to it.  Is it only available to *THEM*?
-- 
Ian Taylor
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