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For those of you who were concerned about the
warning message sent earlier, here is information from
Lexis-Nexis on their personal information file:
[LEXIS-NEXIS Communication Center]
[About LEXIS-NEXIS]
Statement on the P-TRAK file from LEXIS-NEXIS
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LEXIS-NEXIS markets the P-TRAK file to the legal community for use
by general legal practitioners, litigators and public attorneys, as
well as law enforcement agencies and police departments. These
professionals use the P-TRAK file to assist in locating litigants,
witnesses, shareholders, debtors, heirs and beneficiaries.
It's important to note that LEXIS=AE-NEXIS=AE is a business-to-business
service and is not a consumer online service. The LEXIS-NEXIS
service is targeted to and used by attorneys, businesses and
government agencies.
LEXIS-NEXIS is aware of the sensitivities regarding the potential
misuse of information. While business competitors of LEXIS-NEXIS
have for some time made Social Security numbers available to users
of their services, and continue to do so, LEXIS-NEXIS discontinued
the display of Social Security numbers in the P-TRAK file as of June
11, 1996, eleven days after the product was introduced.
There has been much erroneous information distributed on the
Internet regarding the data displayed in the P-TRAK file. The
displayed record may, but not always, include the name of the
individual, the individual's maiden and assumed names, current as
well as up to two previous addresses, month and year of birth and
telephone number. That is the only information displayed in the
P-TRAK file.
Contrary to some messages that have been posted to some Internet
discussion and news groups, the P-TRAK file does not contain any
credit histories, bank account information or other personal
financial data, or medical histories.
The information displayed in the P-TRAK file is an aggregation
readily available from public information sources such as telephone
directories (in print and CD-ROM format) and public records
maintained by government agencies.
Through its actions, LEXIS-NEXIS is balancing the privacy concerns
of the public with the legitimate needs of legal, business and
government professionals for access to accurate sources of publicly
available information. By discontinuing the display of Social
Security numbers in P-TRAK and only providing information that is
already available to the public from other sources, LEXIS-NEXIS
believes it has responsibly met the expressed concerns of the
public.
Please direct any comments to pr@prod.lexis-nexis.com.
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