Previous Politech message: "Washington state goes censorhappy, bans publishing police info" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03324.html --- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:18:18 -0500 To: declanat_private, politechat_private From: Duncan Frissell <frissellat_private> Subject: Re: FC: Washington state goes censorhappy, bans publishing police info At 12:28 AM 3/29/02 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: > {+ NEW SECTION. +} Sec. 1. A person or organization shall not,with > the intent to harm or intimidate, sell, trade, give, publish,distribute, > or otherwise release the residential address, residential telephone > number, birthdate, or social security number of any law > enforcement-related, corrections officer-related, or court-related > employee or volunteer, or someone with a similar name, and categorize > them as such, without the express written permission of the employee or > volunteer unless specifically exempted by law or court order. I guess that means that the law enforcers of Washington State will no longer be able to have credit records at the big three credit reporting agencies since much of that information is obtained and transferred without permission. For example, the credit agencies include the results of public records searches (real estate filings, court actions, etc.) in credit records. It will now be a crime to disseminate that info. Hard for the credit agencies to distinguish between all the data that was included with permission and that which was not. Easier just to cancel the credit records of the protected groups. DCF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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