http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26989 YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE No problem with agencies sharing data? GAO says privacy experts OK with collecting Social Security numbers _________________________________________________________________ Posted: March 28, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com A General Accounting Office report has claimed that privacy experts "have no problems" with the collection and use of Social Security numbers by state motor vehicle agencies, though experts who spoke with WorldNetDaily disagreed with the agency's assertion. The GAO, Congress' watchdog agency, made the claim in a report released in February entitled, "Child Support Enforcement: Most States Collect SSNs and Use Them To Enforce Child Support." It said that 47 out of 53 motor vehicle agencies [MVAs] "collect SSNs from all applicants for driver's licenses," but that federal officials have "taken limited or no steps to promote such collection of SSNs in states not currently doing so." "While many of the state officials and privacy experts we spoke with recognized the increased dissemination of SSNs throughout society as a serious concern, few felt that this concern extended to the policy of motor vehicle agencies collecting SSNs for child support enforcement," said the report. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
