Social Security Number Access & Credit Headers Become Illegal!!
This is what all private investigators, bail bondsman, skip tracers, lenders, financial institutions, insurance companies and eventually the entire US population will see enacted by government officials if we are not vigilant.
If you are average Joe from Nebraska you simply shake your head, scratch yourself, stop reading and say; "WHO CARES!!"
Everyone should care! If HR 948, the “Social Security Number Protection Act” and HR-3046, the “Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Protection Act” become laws this will mean more protection for the criminals and deadbeats and ultimately lead to higher interest rates for all concerned.
Help protect these rights for us. Please email or fax the following letter to your member of Congress where you reside and work.
Whether or not you are participating in the NCISS Hit-the-Hill campaign in DC on October 4th, we still need letters sent to Congress before that time. If you would like to assist us in DC please visit www.nciss.org for further details. Thank you in advance for assisting us in this important matter. If you can not assist us please consider making a donation and writing a check to the NCISS Legislative Fund.
Get involved!!
Patrick L. Baird
Private Investigator
___________________________________________________________
Honorable ………. September 21, 2007
Member of Congress
VIA FACSIMILE (or electronic mail)
Dear Representative…:
I am writing to express my concern with HR 948, the “Social Security Number Protection Act” and HR-3046, the “Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Protection Act”.
It is generally not recognized that a high percentage of the fraud, identity theft, and other crimes and all of the torts winding through our civil and criminal justice systems are investigated by licensed private investigators, not law enforcement personnel.
Law enforcement does not have sufficient resources to investigate many crimes. Many law enforcement agencies have substantial loss thresholds which preclude their accepting all but the largest of financial losses. Investigators have handled cases involving losses of more than $75,000 that have not met these threshold levels.
While it sounds good and reasonable to ban the “sale or purchase” of Social Security numbers, doing so will make it unlawful for investigators in the private sector to access the many databases which are necessary. Not allowing an exception for legitimate investigations in the private sector will, in the end, cripple our system.
Though unintended, the SSN has become the primary and universal identifier on which most identifications revolve. Locating witnesses and determining the correct identity of defendants, plaintiffs and witnesses is essential to our courts.
Recognizing that many investigations of criminal suspects and all criminal defense investigations are conducted by private investigators, the Senate Commerce Committee included necessary exceptions in S 1178, the Identity Theft Prevention Act. We are asking the following language (similar to S-1178) be adopted in HR 948 and HR 3046 if they are to continue to be considered:
. . .to the extent necessary to prevent, detect, or investigate fraud or unauthorized transactions, to verify identity, to locate missing or abducted persons or witnesses to an ongoing or potential civil or criminal lawsuit, criminals, criminal suspects, parties to lawsuits, parents delinquent in child support payments, organ and bone marrow donors, pension funds beneficiaries, missing heirs, and for similar legal, medical or family related purposes . .
Should you have any questions, please contact me or my association’s Washington representative, Larry Sabbath at 703-426-1976. Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
If you are average Joe from Nebraska you simply shake your head, scratch yourself, stop reading and say; "WHO CARES!!"
Everyone should care! If HR 948, the “Social Security Number Protection Act” and HR-3046, the “Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Protection Act” become laws this will mean more protection for the criminals and deadbeats and ultimately lead to higher interest rates for all concerned.
(from my blog dated September 6, 2007) ".......we simply can not stand still and watch the tools in our arsenal be taken away from big brother, in doing so government officials (on all levels) are simply helping the criminals and deadbeats.
If the government continues this practice the industry hit the hardest will be the financial industry. We will witness the demise of skip tracing altogether. This industry will no longer have the tools to effectively contact, locate or even communicate with the very people that owe them money.
What does that mean to 95% of the people that pay their bills on time, higher interest rates and less money in our pockets!!"
Help protect these rights for us. Please email or fax the following letter to your member of Congress where you reside and work.
Whether or not you are participating in the NCISS Hit-the-Hill campaign in DC on October 4th, we still need letters sent to Congress before that time. If you would like to assist us in DC please visit www.nciss.org for further details. Thank you in advance for assisting us in this important matter. If you can not assist us please consider making a donation and writing a check to the NCISS Legislative Fund.
Get involved!!
Patrick L. Baird
Private Investigator
___________________________________________________________
Honorable ………. September 21, 2007
Member of Congress
VIA FACSIMILE (or electronic mail)
Dear Representative…:
I am writing to express my concern with HR 948, the “Social Security Number Protection Act” and HR-3046, the “Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Protection Act”.
It is generally not recognized that a high percentage of the fraud, identity theft, and other crimes and all of the torts winding through our civil and criminal justice systems are investigated by licensed private investigators, not law enforcement personnel.
Law enforcement does not have sufficient resources to investigate many crimes. Many law enforcement agencies have substantial loss thresholds which preclude their accepting all but the largest of financial losses. Investigators have handled cases involving losses of more than $75,000 that have not met these threshold levels.
While it sounds good and reasonable to ban the “sale or purchase” of Social Security numbers, doing so will make it unlawful for investigators in the private sector to access the many databases which are necessary. Not allowing an exception for legitimate investigations in the private sector will, in the end, cripple our system.
Though unintended, the SSN has become the primary and universal identifier on which most identifications revolve. Locating witnesses and determining the correct identity of defendants, plaintiffs and witnesses is essential to our courts.
Recognizing that many investigations of criminal suspects and all criminal defense investigations are conducted by private investigators, the Senate Commerce Committee included necessary exceptions in S 1178, the Identity Theft Prevention Act. We are asking the following language (similar to S-1178) be adopted in HR 948 and HR 3046 if they are to continue to be considered:
. . .to the extent necessary to prevent, detect, or investigate fraud or unauthorized transactions, to verify identity, to locate missing or abducted persons or witnesses to an ongoing or potential civil or criminal lawsuit, criminals, criminal suspects, parties to lawsuits, parents delinquent in child support payments, organ and bone marrow donors, pension funds beneficiaries, missing heirs, and for similar legal, medical or family related purposes . .
Should you have any questions, please contact me or my association’s Washington representative, Larry Sabbath at 703-426-1976. Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
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