lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield) (04/20/91)
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? Do these people have a trade rag?
lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird Broadfield) (04/23/91)
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. -- Laird P. Broadfield | Year after year, site after UUCP: {ucsd, nosc}!crash!lairdb | site, and I still can't think The Net: lairdb@crash.cts.com | of a funny enough .sig.