Your personal Info for sale (Nexes-Lexes)

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Praise the Lord folks,

After reading the article below and listening to a talkshow on KQED-FM here
in San Francisco this morning, I'd say that the uproar over the Nexes-Lexes
database is more hype than reality. The information contained in the
database are rank and seriel number that is "Public Information" (name,
address, birthdate), and available through the County Clerk and other
agencies. The Nexes-Lexes database, "P-Track" does NOT contain personal
credit information (credit card numbers, late payments, so on) that one
might retrieve from credit bureaus like TRW or Equifax.

Where this topic got hot was when an individual posted an erroneous email
to some newsgroups which in turn became widely distributed. I'd say only
because this information is available to certain authorized individuals
(lawyers, say) over the Internet, this is where the stink arrupted.

Take a look at this article written below by Money Magazine using your Web
browser:

http://pathfinder.com/ HREF="mailto:@">@@FGDwXAQAZCM3BR3u/money/moneydaily/latest/archive.html#da
ily

and double-click on the article entitled "MONEY Daily: Privacy storm shows
the best and worst of the 'Net".

God bless,

Bro. Jerry

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Jerry Figueroa
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