voter registration rolls are public records in the US and are sold on a regular basis except each state decides whether or not they can be use for commercial purposes. here are two examples Maryland http://www.elections.state.md.us/voter_registration/purchase_lists.html South Carolina http://www.state.sc.us/scsec/salelist.htm this is a tempest in a teapot. commercial entities can and have gathered your personal data for commercial purposes. On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Lawrence Serewicz < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Are people discouraged from having a phone because they may get > marketing calls? > > Are people discouraged from having a front door because they may receive > marketing letters? > > Are people discouraged from living because they may meet a marketer? > > > > > -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]