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True enough. But where do you draw the line? Last month U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles Grassley introduced the Personal Information Privacy act of 1997, which would make it tougher for businesses to sell Social Security numbers, unlisted phone numbers and other kinds of personal data. The legislation was prompted when Feinstein's staff members claimed to have found her Social Security number on the Net in less than three minutes. "People are losing control of their identities," Feinstein says. "Our private lives are becoming commodities with tremendous value in the marketplace...
Senator Dianne Feinstein has made it clear she thinks there's too much personal information drifting around in cyberspace. To test that proposition, I went to the Net to see what I could find about her. My first stop: the Dianne Feinstein home page, which pops up as soon as you type her name into any Web search engine (I used HotBot). There I discovered her date of birth and the names of her husband, daughter, stepdaughters and granddaughter. That's more than enough information to prime the pump at a commercial database service. I went to KnowX...
...matter. Cambridge Statistical Research Associates offers an excellent nationwide online name search for just $12. In exchange for Feinstein's name and birth date, CSRA delivered the Senator's current and former home addresses and (bingo!) her unlisted home phone number...
Fortunately for him, he had a lot of those. A major Democratic Party fund raiser, who with his father gave $195,000 in 1992-94, Opperman enjoyed a decades-old friendship with Al Gore and served as campaign-finance co-chairman for California Senator Dianne Feinstein in 1994. At a Democratic fund raiser that fall, Opperman took the opportunity to collar Bill Clinton and, as Democratic officials told TIME, asked him point-blank, "Can you get the Justice Department off my back?" Opperman recalls seeing Clinton but denies asking for a favor. He remembers how agitated...
Such mistakes have taken their toll through the departure of some once-loyal customers, particularly those with an eye for the latest trends. Tara Feinstein, 35, a free-lance journalist, recently browsed the aisles of a Nordstrom store in Woodland Hills, California, shopping for clothes for her three-year-old son. She walked out with two $20 T shirts and a sense of disappointment. "I remember being very excited when Nordstrom came to Southern California in the 1980s, and I shopped there exclusively," she recalls. "Now, when I think of Nordstrom, I picture brown and drab...