A Matter Of Public Record
You GO girl! It's about time that someone showed Congress what we "little people" have to put up with. We fought and fought back in 1988 to keep employee SSNs off of their health insurance cards. Fought some more in 1989 or so to stop Virginia from requiring our SSNs on drivers licenses. One would have hoped that perhaps the fight would have become easier, but that is not the case.
Perhaps if the decision makers had to play on the same field as we do, things would change pretty quickly. You want health insurance reform? Make Congress and the President use OUR health insurance instead of their own bloated policies. You want tax reform? Let the IRS harass Members of Congress the same way they harass the rest of us. Aviation reform? Put Congress on the "no fly" list. Privacy reform? Do exactly what BJ is doing. More power to her.
A Matter Of Public Record: "Betty (but call her BJ) Ostergren, a feisty 56-year-old from just north of Richmond, is driven to make important people angry. She puts their Social Security numbers on her Web site, or links to where they can be found.
It's not that she wants CIA Director Porter J. Goss, former secretary of state Colin L. Powell, or Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to be victims of identity theft, as were millions of Americans in the past year. Ostergren is on a crusade to scare and shame public officials into doing something about how easy it is to get sensitive personal data."
(Via Washington Post.)