Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:14:38 -0400
Reply-To: Nat Wooding <nathani@VERIZON.NET>
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From: Nat Wooding <nathani@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Question about SAS-L History and Invasion of Privacy
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Jim
Tax returns in the U.S. are very private. However, starting around the early
1970's, presidents have been making their returns public and this has
started including candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency. A site
covering this is
http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/PresidentialTaxReturns
However, records of court proceedings, unless specifically sealed, are
public record and I once blundered upon the out-of-state divorce proceedings
of someone whom I had since met. Whether such documents would be placed on
the web would probably be controlled by the individual state government.
Otherwise, one would have to go to the individual court to see the paper
documents or, at least here in Virginia, have a log-in to the system that
stores them.
Nat Wooding
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Groeneveld
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Subject: Re: Question about SAS-L History and Invasion of Privacy
Hi Art,
It can get even worse. I accidentally stumbled over the following: income
and tax data of individual Norwegian people are freely available on the
internet. See e.g.:
http://www.biip.no/default.aspx?section=skatt&page=person&id=2910310
That is unthinkable in our country. How about the US and other countries?
Regards - Jim.
--
Jim Groeneveld, Netherlands
Statistician/SAS consultant
http://jim.groeneveld.eu.tf
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:19:47 -0400, Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
wrote:
>I am doing some preliminary searches and analyses in preparing for the
>2011 SGF SAS-L meetup (previously BOF).
>
>The first ever SAS-L post was from someone I don't think I've ever met,
>June Genis, from Stanford. So, like any good researcher, I started with a
>Google search.
>
>The following came up: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?
>q=cache:ExK3R8BBgDMJ:fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php%3Ftype%
>3Dname%26lname%3DGenis%26fname%3DJune+June+Genis&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca
>
>or, in short form: http://xrl.us/bhyx47
>
>I was shocked that such private (I thought) information is so freely
>available on the web. Am I the only naive one who didn't know such data
>was out there?
>
>Toward what I was actually trying to find, does anyone have anything
>interesting and non-invasive they can tell me about June?
>
>Art
