Tim writes: > To check for myself that these SSNs are already on the Web, I entered > the name of the first of the cops into Google. Up popped a long list > of Kirkland city employees and their SSNs and salaries and birthdates > and whatnot. Apparently made searchable on the Web by the City of > Kirkland itself. > >http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:30dec676da3085e3:www.justicefiles.org/Kirkland/Kirkland%2520SSN.asp+Blinsink&hl=en Google caches the entire web, so despite the judge's order, the orificers' SS numbers are going to be ubiquitously available until the google spider recrawls the page. Amusingly enough, back before all this legal brouhaha ensued, I was finding the justicefiles site slow, so I tossed in a background job to suck a mirror with wget so that I could peruse it later. I never bothered to delete it, or to remove read permission, and it's still sitting there, although the URL has never been published. I suppose I should chmod it so I don't get a nasty lawyer letter too. Silly judges, especially since the courts have already ruled that an individual has no privacy claim which he can use to prevent his SS number from being published in public records. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
