FC: The world's toughest job? Defending Experian...

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32826,00.html

                     Defending Privacy Snooping 
                     by Declan McCullagh 

                     7:35 a.m. 2.Dec.1999 PST 
                     WASHINGTON -- Marty Abrams has the
                     world's toughest job. 

                     Forget about the headaches of being
                     Seattle's mayor right now, or for that
                     matter a leader of the teargassed,
                     rubber-bulleted, and curfewed anti-WTO
                     activists. 

                     As the vice president of credit-reporting
                     behemoth Experian, Abrams' job is even
                     tougher. 

                     He has to defend the controversial idea
                     that his company can collect whatever
                     information about you it legally can
                     acquire, store that data in perpetuity,
                     and resell it to people you don't even
                     know. And he has to do this in an
                     environment where every public poll
                     screams that Americans are twitchier
                     than ever about privacy. 

                     [...]



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