Ken, >From what I remember a whole bunch of geo-demographic firms in the US and Canada collect credit card billing info directly from banks on the basis of bilateral agreements. I am not sure whether they can release this kind of data to individuals and how legal the whole things is from the start. You must realize that privacy issues are just next door if not in the same room, but unfortunatelly law cannot always keep up with technological advances and 'big brother watching' monitoring techniques. I have not had a big interest in this for several years, but you can start searching for more ideas and names with an article in Economic Geography, Vol 71, April 1995, No. 2 by Jon Goss: "We Know Who You Are and We Know Where You Live...". Peter Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 14 10:39 EDT 1999 > X-Authentication-Warning: lists.sni.net: majordomo set sender to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Ken Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'MAPINFO-L'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: MI Addresses from Credit Card Info > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:30:50 -0400 > X-Priority: 3 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Precedence: bulk > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Length: 561 > > What is the procedure for acquiring address information from credit card > companies? > For example, if I am a retail merchant whose customers pay with credit > cards, how can I get the billing addresses from those transactions? > Also, is it possible to detrermine of the card was issued to a business > or an individual? > Thanks in advance, > Ken Fioretti > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put > "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ********************************************* Peter Gozdyra =================== Research Associate Dpt. of Geography and Planning, U. of Toronto ------------------- 100 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3 Room 617A - Cartography Office (416)978-3378, fax: (416)946-3886 =================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
