Privacy Activist Posts SSNs of Public Officials

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Betty Ostergren, a feisty 56-year-old from just north of Richmond, Virginia, is driven to make important people angry in her quest to call attention to information brokers and corporate insecurity of peoples' personal information. She puts their Social Security numbers on her Web site, or links to where they can be found.

"Don't you think if I can get Tom DeLay's Social Security number . . . that some guy in an Internet cafe in Pakistan can, too?", she asks.


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