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From: gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek.....)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Those (henious) Information Brokers; who are they?
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.152949.27956@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 15:29:49 GMT
References: <8683@crash.cts.com> <1991Apr21.151853.11183@com50.c2s.mn.org> <8741@crash.cts.com>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <8741@crash.cts.com> lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird Broadfield) writes:
 >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.

	Any organization with fundraising departments.

	There are a lot of freelancers out there as well.

	Of course, these folks are mostly interested in individuals and 
corporations with large net worths......



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Roger Tang, gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu
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