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'How Notre Dame put my SSN on the Internet'

Simson Garfinkel writes on Technology Review:

Last week I got a letter in the mail from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Apparently, the school had put information about me, including my social-security number (SSN) and demographic information, on the Internet. "We have no evidence to date that this information was used inappropriately," the school wrote, but I might want to take "prudent ... precautions" by periodically checking my credit report with the three major bureaus.

What's so infuriating about this is that I never had anything to do with the University of Notre Dame.

posted by Fergie @ 1/30/2007 11:37:00 AM