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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer-blacklist industry already has its giants. Such credit bureaus as TRW Information Services in Orange, Calif., and Equifax Inc. in Atlanta have long relied on huge banks of mainframe computers to provide consumer credit records for banks, department stores, finance companies and employers. Every working day, TRW's machines handle an average of 255,000 requests, culling information from a massive data base that contains detailed records of the bill-paying habits of 133 million people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: An Electronic Assault on Privacy? | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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