To All List members: FYI, If I thought the previous thread on this topic was thought provoking .... perhaps I should have waited to here from Ken and Dainne .... please read ... this to me is far more outrageous then worrying about whether a living name was posted on a website ... No responses are really needed ... but this really make you wonder about where people heads are at ... I we though we had privacy issues on the web ... hah ... Ken & Dianne wrote: > > Byran, > I have read the posting that you posted to Fulton disc. group this > evening, and thought that I would share a little more food for thought > for you. > I live in TX. and my governor is now running for president. > Cherl spoke of our internet info. getting into the hands of the wrong > type of people who might commit crimes against us. > We all learned this last year that all our drivers license > infomation that is updated each time you have to renew it, or you should > change residences, is done by our lovely state penal institution > inmates! In order to save money, the state govt. decided to have the > convicts do all the drivers license material. So the way I figure it, > the criminals do not need to look on genealogy websites to get info. on > anyone, they just show up for work and get more than is posted to a > website! And beleive me, that's scary and real food for thought. > Ken Bryan Wrote: Do you mind if I post this to other lists .... Ken & Dianne wrote: > > It is okay by us, if you send it to the list. We just did not want to > scare everyone by the reality of it. We do not know just how long the > state has had inmates processing the drivers license, but we have heard > that they also do lots of other paperwork, etc. for the state, which has > names, addresses, and lots of other personal info. on it. > You know that the convicts can sell this info. or give it away or use it > themselves to "steal identities" and it looks like our govt. could care > less what happens to any of us. So we do not know if this practice came > into being after G. Bush was gov. or before he became our gov., but as > far as we know, it is still being done. (probably in other states too). > Ken & Dianne Thank you for your comments, Ken & Dianne and permission to forward ... I find this very interesting .... and scarier then the other discussion!!! Bryan -- Bryan W. Lane My Personal Page: http://www.gate.net/~bwl/ Member: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Edward FULLER) http://www.mayflower.org/ Member: The Fuller Society http://redrock.sedona.net/fullersociety/ Fulton County ILGenWeb Coordinator: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilfulton/ Mason County ILGenWeb Coordinator: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmason/ Mason Co., IL mailing list: ILMason-L-request@rootsweb.com POLLITT Surname Resource Coordinator: http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/p/o/POLLITT/ POLLITT mailing list: POLLITT-L-request@rootsweb.com Let's Link ... You Scratch my Link and I'll Scratch Yours!