States in quandary over wholesale release of birth and death data.
Open-Records Quirks Linked to I.D. Theft - Savvy thieves are using the Internet and finding loopholes in the law to steal identities from the living and the dead, a problem becoming increasingly pervasive in spite of efforts to stop it. LA Times (free subscription required)

- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/03/2004 07:39:00 AM