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2003-06-19 - 4:33 p.m. I'm reading: Wired Online I'm listening to: John Coltrane: Crescent Quote O' The Day: Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind: "All virtue is merely a matter of prices." A consumer rights group, upset with the California Assembly's repeated failure to enact financial privacy legislation, is making public its stance on personal privacy. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights has posted on the Internet partial Social Security numbers of lawmakers who didn't support the privacy bill. The group was able to buy the numbers on the Internet for $26. Rather than recognizing that this may, in fact, demonstrate how vulnerable everyone's personal information is, lawmakers are outraged. They say this type of high-pressure lobbying borders on extortion. Lawmakers didn't protest the financial industry's extensive lobbying against the bill, however. Source: Wired Online � 
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