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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Missouri tracks scofflaws via pizza-delivery databases Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:29:03 -0400 From: Richard M. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Declan McCullagh' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2004-04-27-pizza-no-privacy_x.htm
Missouri tracks scofflaws via pizza-delivery databases By Kelly Wiese, Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - It's dinnertime, and you're hungry and tired, so you pick up the phone and order your favorite pizza. But you might have just landed yourself a lot more than pepperoni and cheese.
If you owe fines or fees to the courts, that phone call may have provided the link the state needed to track you down and make you pay.
That's one of the strategies of firms such as a company being hired by the Missouri Office of State Courts Administrator to handle its fine and debt collections.
David Coplen, the state office's budget director, said he discovered that pizza delivery lists are one of the best sources such companies use to locate people.
"There are literally millions of dollars of uncollected fines, fees and court costs out there," Coplen said.
How much?
A sampling in January of just three of Missouri's 114 counties found about $2 million owed to courts by people whose Social Security numbers were known, Coplen said. That finding suggests courts statewide could reap significant revenue once Dallas-based ACS gets to work this month pursuing people using phone numbers and addresses.
Databases compiled by private companies and government agencies are a key tool for firms such as ACS, Coplen said, and "one of the databases they find to be most helpful are pizza delivery databases."
"When you call to order a pizza, you usually give them your correct name, your correct address and your correct phone number," he said.
Just which pizza companies' databases might be mined is unknown.
A representative of Domino's Pizza said the company does not sell its customer information, and other national pizza chains did not respond to messages seeking comment.
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