Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!guest From: guest@geech.ai.mit.edu (Guest Account) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Private Investigator's claims Message-ID: Date: 15 May 91 21:35:58 GMT References: <14826@encore.Encore.COM> <1991May15.181651.10629@cs.cornell.edu> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: Guest at MIT Lines: 21 In-reply-to: wayner@CS.Cornell.EDU's message of 15 May 91 18:16:51 GMT In article <1991May15.181651.10629@cs.cornell.edu> wayner@CS.Cornell.EDU (Peter Wayner) writes: The cost was $500 initially and some small amount per report on a person. They had driver's records and public information from 49 states. Massachusetts was the only hold out at the time. (Two years ago.) They also had access to all the credit bureaus. Massachusetts is laughable when it comes to security at the Registry of Motor Vehicles. The Registry will hand over all the information they have on any given individual if you pay the small fee they require. All you need to get the information is a license plate number. The information almost always includes the individuals social security number because hardly anyone in MA goes to the trouble of requesting a drivers license number different from their social security number. Last year a local TV station did a peice on this. They randomly chose a half a dozen victims in a parking lot and used the license plate numbers to get all the dope. They later visited the victims and showed them how much info they had. Needless to say the victims were shocked. ---TIP ONEIL