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by 5thGenTexan
Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:56 am
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Topic: Census
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Re: Census

seamusTX wrote:
Who'sJohnGalt wrote:It also states that they will contact you by phone which is strange since they aren't supposed to have names just addresses, so how they get a phone number is beyond me.
You can look up phone numbers based on addresses on the internets to a limited extent.

It's also possible that the phone company gives them the phone number at an address. That kind of thing is not explicitly secret.

I don't know how various commercial entities do it; but if you move, as a friend of mine did recently, you immediately get junk mail and phone calls from all sorts of business and also churches. Someone is selling the information.

- Jim
Back when I worked in the Pharmacy right out of high school before Big Al invented the Internet we used the old crisscross book if you had a name you had the phone number and address or vice versa. It was a wonderful tool for catching suspicious narco scripts that might warrant a chat with the Doc and/or narcotics officer before they got filled and billed. I'm sure the same folks that paid for that book use an online version now.
by 5thGenTexan
Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:59 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Census
Replies: 113
Views: 13387

Re: Census

Got to say in the past the long form seemed more than a little intrusive but with the way that this administration is running this one I am more than a little concerned.

I have absolutely zero confidence that they can be trusted to keep the information confidential, as the old saying goes who is watching the watchers. They don't need to know most of what they ask on the long form and the appropriate agencies already know what they need to know plus.

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