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From: craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Those (henious) Information Brokers; who are they?
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.151853.11183@com50.c2s.mn.org>
Date: 21 Apr 91 15:18:53 GMT
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In article <8683@crash.cts.com> lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield) writes:
>Is anyone keeping a list of these folks?  There's the major credit
>agencies, of course (TRW and so forth...); we all know about Equifax
>by now, who else is in the business?  


Every person now serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S.
Senate, as well as most of their more recent challengers.  The Smithsonian
Museums, St. Jude's Children Hospital, Greenpeace, Mothers Against Drunk
Drivers, People for the American Way, The National Rifle Association, EE
Times, etc.

The list goes on and on.  All of these organizations and most organizations
in the United States compile, maintain, buy and/or sell lists about
individuals and other organizations.  In one way, or another, all of the
above make it profitable to compile information about individuals.

/craig