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From: tac@teldata.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.legal
Subject: Re:  SS numbers etc.
Message-ID: <341@teldata.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-May-84 12:00:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: teldata.341
Posted: Wed May 16 12:00:29 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 17-May-84 07:08:19 EDT
References: <426@opus.UUCP> <367@houxu.UUCP>, <1356@brl-vgr.ARPA> <1458@sdccs6.UUCP>, <295@sjuvax.UUCP>
Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA
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, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice)

>>  From teltone!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!mcnc!akgua!psuvax!burdvax!sjuvax!jss Sun May 13 18:45:03 1984
>>  Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site teldata.UUCP
>>  Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP
>>  Path: teldata!teltone!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!mcnc!akgua!psuvax!burdvax!sjuvax!jss
>>  From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro)
>>  Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.legal
>>  Subject: Re:  SS numbers etc.
>>  Message-ID: <295@sjuvax.UUCP>
>>  Date: Sun, 13-May-84 18:45:03 PDT
>>  Date-Received: Wed, 16-May-84 02:05:16 PDT
>>  References: <426@opus.UUCP> <367@houxu.UUCP>, <1356@brl-vgr.ARPA> <1458@sdccs6.UUCP>
>>  Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa.
>>  Lines: 7
>>  
>>  <Eat Me...>
>>  Correct me if I am wrong, but it occurs to me that a credit card company may
>>  have justification in requesting your SS number on the grounds that they
>>  are obliged to file tax related reports on you...
>>  
>>  Jonathan Shapiro
>>  Haverford College...
>>  
If the gas companies are filing anything about you in particular with the
IRS they are violating your rights of privacy.  Incidentally, the banks 
already do that when they report on you.

	    From the Soapbox of
	    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

	    A Radical A Day Keeps The Government At Bay.