More info on this?

Found this on the NY (Cyber)Times site (http://www.nytimes.com)
under This Weeks Stories...


          L exis-Nexis, one of the nation's leading private
          information brokers, has discontinued a new online
          offering that provided access to
          millions of individuals' Social Security numbers, after an
          onslaught of complaints from customers and the credit
          information bureau that originally supplied the data. 

          The service, which was offered by the company for 10 days
          before it was discontinued Monday, was one feature of the
          new "Lexis-Nexis P-Trak Person Locator" that Lexis-Nexis had
          developed to attract new business from law firms and
          law-enforcement agencies. 

          [..]

I believe the folks at EPIC played a key part in this move by Lexis/Nexis.

-Declan


Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 16-Jun-96 More info on this? by
"Deranged Mutant"@unix.a 
>           L exis-Nexis, one of the nation's leading private
>           information brokers, has discontinued a new online
>           offering that provided access to
>           millions of individuals' Social Security numbers, after an
>           onslaught of complaints from customers and the credit
>           information bureau that originally supplied the data. 
>  
>           The service, which was offered by the company for 10 days
>           before it was discontinued Monday, was one feature of the
>           new "Lexis-Nexis P-Trak Person Locator" that Lexis-Nexis had
>           developed to attract new business from law firms and
>           law-enforcement agencies.