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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Those (henious) Information Brokers; who are they?
Message-ID: <930@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 18:27:27 GMT
References: <8683@crash.cts.com> <1991Apr21.151853.11183@com50.c2s.mn.org> <8741@crash.cts.com>
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In article <8741@crash.cts.com>, lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird Broadfield) writes:
> 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.

The article in the Wall Street Journal mentioned in this newsgroup
is a good place to start.  (March 14 ? (1991) ).

Also a good browse of business magazines is interesting.  In a
recent mag (Forbes or Business Week) was an article on AVDO Systems, the 
direct mailer which is going to branch out into the privacy invasion 
business.

(On that note, if anyone wants to see what Len Rose looks like, there
was a picture of him with an article on the Secret Service crackdown,
three weeks ago in Business Week.)

Markz@ssc.uucp  mzenier@polari.uucp