From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Jun 13 11:36:44 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5DHaejb009479; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:36:40 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5DHadXe023025 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:36:39 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k5DF0hFI015131 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:00:43 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k5DF0hR9015130 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:00:43 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k5DAMdFI014586 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:22:39 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k5DCwO5M028367 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:58:24 -0600 X-Envelope-From: dsam@sampubco.com Tue Jun 13 06:58:24 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5DCwOjb028358 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:58:24 -0600 Received: from sigma.control-access10.com (sigma.control-access10.com [69.57.184.10]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5DCwHka013226 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:58:22 -0600 Received: (qmail 22718 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2006 08:58:03 -0400 Received: from 67-41-162-222.slkc.qwest.net (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (67.41.162.222) by sigma.control-access10.com with SMTP; 13 Jun 2006 08:58:03 -0400 Message-ID: <448EB64E.3000805@sampubco.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:57:50 -0600 From: W David Samuelsen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roots-L Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] San Diego TV station seeks to have government censor SSDI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com When Congress enacted the law to make the SSDI public, the intent was to require the employers, banks, credit reporting bureaus, insurance companies and yes even the state vital statistics agencies (responsible for birth and death certificates) to check and verify the person is really DEAD and the SSN number is verified and blocked. Even the birth certificates are supposed to be checked against the database to mark them DECEASED. So far many of companies have NOT done just that as intended by Congress. The ID thieves knew exact which database to get around and go for the living ones. Very very few cases of the deceased cases, while so much was reported of the living (the thieves go after unshredded financial documents containing information they need, as their primary target.) Removal of SSN #s from the SSDI database will NOT work. It has to remain online as a big deterrent and to ensure that any records of the deceased are noted and blocked. W. David Samuelsen