Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 05:17:20 -0400
From: bobhunt@erols.com
Subject: [lpaz-repost] (fwd) [Liberty Outlook] Arizona faces suit over SS numbers on licenses
To: Individual-Sovereignty@yahoogroups.com, lpaz-repost@yahoogroups.com


On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:40:05 -0700, "Mark Laythorpe"
<xntryk1@xntri-city.com> wrote:

http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0809mvd0809.html

Aug. 09, 2002

State faces suit over numbers on licenses
By Carol Sowers

Motorists who argue that Social Security numbers on their driver's licenses
violate their privacy and pose an identity theft risk filed a $500 million
class-action notice of claim this week against the Arizona Department of
Transportation.

"Identity theft is a whole new ballgame, and thieves can use these numbers
pretty aggressively," said Ken Countryman, a Phoenix attorney representing
the group.

Included in the claim are the cases of two women who say their identities
were stolen because their Social Security numbers were on their drive's
licenses.

The complaint says that since 1985 the state Motor Vehicle Division has
violated the federal privacy act by failing to inform motorists that the use
of their Social Security number was optional.

As a result, it says, about 55 percent of the state's 3.6 million drivers
use their numbers. The plaintiffs are asking $55 million in damages to cover
the $4 cost of reimbursing motorists who have paid for new licenses without
the number, provide free renewal in the future, compensate people whose
identities have been stolen, print new forms advising of the optional use of
the confidential number, and pay attorneys' fees and court costs.

MVD spokeswoman Cydney DeModica said license application forms have always
given motorists the option of using their Social Security numbers. She added
that the government banned the use of Social Security numbers on licenses in
2000, replacing them with computer-generated ID numbers.

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