Wonder how many counties would hire an extra staff person just to figure out who "has a right to know" information that is contained in all of their ledgers!! It is considered public information at this point, we should be able to access it, county employees should be able to photocopy and send to us . . . doesn't work that way already!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Bestrom" <RBestrom@earthlink.net> To: <minnesota@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [MINNESOTA] Identity Theft/public records > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karen Helfert" <khelfert1@comcast.net> > >> There is a BIG difference from NOT showing birthdates and mother's maiden >> name, etc >> online and still making it available in the local jurisdiction WHILE the >> person is still alive >> for people with a reason/right to know. > > Most Identity Theft is from the local area of the victim. A large > percentage are friends and family, caretakers..see below, indicates 19.5 > percent. Again, knowing someone's DOB, Mother's maiden, POB, is not > enough. > And, knowing genealogy information on ancestors is not enough. I CAN NOT > get a credit card in Great-grandfathers name when he died in the twenties. > > http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/03/ssntestimony.htm > http://www.bos.frb.org/consumer/identity/idtheft.htm > http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/idtheft/trends-update_2000.pdf > http://www.privacyrights.org/AR/id_theft.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MINNESOTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >