The company blocked the Social Security display within 10 days after receiving complaints, Lexis-Nexis chief Timothy Davies says. Many of our competitors did not. But that wasn't the end of the flap. The issues are not understood. We're not for the person in the street that's trying to look up their relatives.
People can actually lose insurance, employment, housing. . . .
People can be stalked. We shouldn't have to get used to less privacy in the future - we need more. It's driving privacy issues like nothing before. I don't want to be an alarmist, because I like having information available. If you ask the average person, they probably don't realize that anybody off the street can get all that information.