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From: lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird Broadfield)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy
Subject: Re: Those (henious) Information Brokers; who are they?
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Date: 23 Apr 91 00:16:04 GMT
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In article <8683@crash.cts.com> I wrote:
>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?  

And Craig Wilson said:
>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.

Okay, gee, thanks Craig, I was completely unaware that mailing lists may
be sold by organizations constituted for other purposes.  What a revelation!

To make it *completely* clear:  I'm interested in those organizations whose
*sole and/or primary business* is the collection and sale of "personal"
information, especially those whose datasets extend beyond mailing-list
data, into lifestyle, health, financial, etc.


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