IP: SEC exposes execs' personal data

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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>According to an article published on C|Net NEWS.COM at
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>http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34109,00.html
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>the SEC has been publishing the Social Security numbers (and other personal information) of executives of major corporations -- required, for some reason, on many forms -- for years. The agency claims that it can't remove the numbers from the Web, because it believes that this would amount to "altering" the documents.
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>To test this assertion, I went to the SEC's Edgar database to see if some major execs' personal information was really on display. Sure enough, I found this on the first try:
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>http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/0000891020-96-000072.txt
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>Almost makes me glad I'm NOT a billionaire executive.
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>--Brett Glass