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- From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
- Newsgroups: alt.privacy
- Subject: Re: Job ad from Computerworld - want SSN/drug test
- Message-ID: <6551@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:33:21 GMT
- References: <1jk591INN96s@tamsun.tamu.edu> <218@complex.complex.is> <1993Jan21.054737.24968@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.
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- In article <1993Jan21.054737.24968@bradley.bradley.edu> dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell) writes:
- >normal citizens like you and me don't normally get access to these
- >databases, and as quite a few consumers' advocacy groups have shown, a lot
- >of this information is wrong, and it can be a real pain in the ass to have
- >this information corrected. Wrong information can wreak havoc on one's
- >life, especially from a financial perspective.
- >
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- As this is probably either libel or slander (depending on how the bad info
- is passed about) I would have thought it would have been an ideal hunting
- ground for a huge class action by a keen young lawyer.
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- Geoff. Lane. | Internet: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk | Janet: zzassgl@uk.ac.mcc.uts
- UTS Sys Admin, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL
- Exactly who makes the Tannoy announcements in M*A*S*H? It can't be Radar
- and there is never anyone else in the office. (This refers to `classic'
- M*A*S*H of course, not M*A*S*H*Lite with all the Radar removed at source.)
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