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From: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Borrowed records from Revenue Canada
Message-ID: <492@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 14:00:37 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.492
Posted: Thu Nov 20 14:00:37 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 17:43:05 EST
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Reply-To: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann)
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <623@water.UUCP> jmlang@water.UUCP writes:
>I is very scary that somebody can "borrow" a few million
>records containing personal data about people.  ... 
>           ...  In a way, it is a bit reassuring that the
>records were on micro-fiches, there is quite a lot more
>damage that could be done with the same records in electronic
>format.

The other day I was given a demo of what a few thousand dollar
machine attached to a PC can do, inputting data directly from
paper.  It had better than 95% accuracy.  Someone could probably
do better than that from microfiche.