Tuesday, June 14, 2005

washingtonpost.com: Private Eyes Fear Limits On Information Access

By Jonathan Krim, Washington Post Staff Writer

Tue Jun 14, 1:00 AM ET

Private investigators are working to blunt legislation that cracks down on the active marketplace for Social Security numbers, telling Congress that restricting access to the numbers will hurt their business and hamper their investigations.

1 comment:

John DuMond said...

I saw this coming after the security breaches at Lexis-Nexis and Choicepoint earlier this year. Databases like those are incredible resources to an investigator. Unfortunately, they're also great resources for crooks. Hopefully they'll work out a compromise that protects privacy while allowing those of us in the investigative biz access to the info.