Anyone --any landman or anyone else-- can walk into a county courthouse in Texas, and look through the property records, birth records, etc., which list the very items we're taught to safeguard: name, date of birth, mother's maiden name, address, and social security number. The AG tried to shut this down by requiring that SSNs be redacted from all public documents before being released. Amid a huge outcry, he temporarily withdrew that ruling, and now the legislature has slapped him down and told all Texans that their private information should be viewable by anyone.ScubaSigGuy wrote:That's an incredible invasion of privacy.
I believe any information the government requires you to give, should be under strict lock and key, viewable to no one except the specific agency that has a specific need for that information.
Newspapers can't even begin to invade your privacy like government can. And does.
Kevin