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Nona
SF, CA
Age: 44
Aug 22, 2009
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6316 - PRIVATE Marriage
I don't think it exists. We got married in Nevada specifically for the "Confidential Marriage" option Nevada advertises. Recently I looked up my name on Ancestry [dot] com... the first record is my marriage location and my spouse's full legal name. I have never added anything to Ancestry [dot] com, and we don't have an account there. Nevada probably sold or gave their records to the site. So much for confidentiality.
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| 6320. |
Drake
LA, CA
Age: 34
Aug 22, 2009
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Credit Checks - Mark #6311
The simple act of a credit check itself doesn't communicate that you actually decided to accept the lease (make sure the apartment complex did not put a record of your lease on your credit reports)
Credit reports show recent requests. Requests. That's enough. In conjunction with the electric company (which would probably also show as a one of the most recent requests) you have Jon's address.
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| 6319. |
Mike
Columbus, Ohio
Age: 36
Aug 22, 2009
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6318
Thanks, Marc. And yes, we are looking for a legal marriage in that we would be recognized as a married couple for all insurance purposes, among other things. From what I am gathering most things that are considered legal only after filing with the appropriate government channels such as property with the county auditor and marriage with the clerk of courts, CAN still be recognized as legal if an attorney drafts the proper legal documents. Is this right? Has anybody out there had any success or difficulty achiiving and maintaining these layers of privacy?
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| 6318. |
Marc
Seattle
Age: 52
Aug 22, 2009
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Mikes wedding question (6316)
Handle it like a gay couple does. Have a lawyer draw up a legal agreement that is the equivalent of a marriage. You don't have to file it for it to be legal, just keep copies in a safe place. Then have a minister do a religious wedding. When you explain why you will have no problem finding one. If you want you can still have the big church wedding since no one but the minister will need to know and he can be bound to confidentiality.
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Mike wants a legal marriage, Marc. The above does not do it.
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| 6317. |
John
Virginia Beach, VA
Age: 39
Aug 21, 2009
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Obamacare
Jack,
... In your opinion, with the proposed intrusions into all financial accounts in the Obamacare plan, do you think large amounts of people/businesses will switch to bartering and a cash economy (i.e. avoid using banks) to protect their finances from ever increasing government intrusion? Might be a good time to start researching a quality made safe for the home to keep valuables/money in and construction of a "safe room" to conceal it in. What do you think?
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We built a home fortress with a safe room many years ago. A fireproof safe is good but it should be hidden in, for example, an "invisible" closet. The way money is being speny by this present government leads me to believe it's not a bad idea to stock up on both euros and Canadian dollars, and perhaps pick up some silver rounds (each contains one ounce of .999 silver). Stick to bullion and buy just a bit over spot. I prefer silver to gold because a silver round (similar to a silver dollar in size), worth about $14.50, will be easier to barter with than a gold coin worth almost a thousand dollars. However, I would not go overboard with this. There are more important things in life than accumulating silver and gold.
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| 6316. |
Mike
Columbus, Ohio
Age: 36
Aug 21, 2009
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PRIVATE wedding
I am curious if anybody knows how one would go about getting married privately as well as legally? Private in that record of marriage can not be found through normal database searches at state and local courthouses here in the United States and legal in that we will be legally married? Would a marriage ceremony outside of the United States suffice?
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| 6314. |
Drake
LA, CA
Age: 34
Aug 21, 2009
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Twitter to post your location
You will be able to opt out - they say - but Twitter knows where you are when you 'tweet' and will be posting this information with your message as a "dateline".
Submitted Link #1: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/tweets-wi...
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| 6312. |
John
NY,NY
Age: 21
Aug 21, 2009
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Certification
I'm interested in getting certified in certain areas in computing (e.g Network+, CCNA, etc). I was wondering if anyone here would know what are the privacy implications (e.g Is my name on some central database of certified persons with my picture, etc) in doing so and/or ways to better protect my privacy.
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| 6311. |
Mark
Dearborn, MI
Age: 39
Aug 21, 2009
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#6291 - Location Revealed
Jon, ask your apartment complex if they distribute any of your personal information to the white pages or any other venues. Find out if they keep your lease private.
A question is whether one can rent an apartment (without having a credit check run) in one's own name and have that info dissemenated. The simple act of a credit check itself doesn't communicate that you actually decided to accept the lease (make sure the apartment complex did not put a record of your lease on your credit reports).
This might help you eliminate the apartment as the leak and direct you to look at the electricity.
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| 6310. |
dan
sunnyvale ca
Age: 23
Aug 21, 2009
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staying anonymous on the internet
how can i start a blog about a really controversial subject and keep my identity secret? especially don't want anyone from my company to know who i am. thanks in advance. great forum!
Submitted Link #1: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/21/outing.anonymou...
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Don't do it. Period. Note to readers: The URL below was entered by me, not by Dan. It's a news item on CNN titled, "The coming-out stories of anonymous bloggers." As you will see, they were not so anonymous after all.
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| 6309. |
Stan
Atlanta GA
Age: 44
Aug 21, 2009
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Obomacare v/s Americans right to financial privacy
Buried in the 1,017 pages of the House Democrats’ health-care bill is a little-noticed provision that for the first time could give the government access to the checking or credit-card information of every American.
Under section 163, which is entitled “Administrative Simplification,” the bill sets new “standards” for electronic transactions between individuals and their health-care providers.
According to section 163, the standards will “enable the real-time (or near real-time) determination of an individual’s financial responsibility at the point of service . . . ” In addition, they will “enable electronic funds transfers, in order to allow automated reconciliation with related health care payment and remittance advice.”
Submitted Link #1: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODg4Y2FkYmFlZ...
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| 6307. |
Drake
LA, CA
Age: 34
Aug 20, 2009
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6306 - Jon's Location
They did do a credit check on me only. How would this alert the police to my wherabouts?
I didn't want to pry earlier, but most of the pertinent questions can be covered by the answer 'databases'. Your marriage is in the records. If you've been married long enough to have filed taxes, your SSN's are linked. If you've shared anything else, like utilities, you co-signed for the car, your previous residence, etc. you're linked to her. When the apartment complex did a credit check they entered your SSN. What came back was everything of a financial nature you've done alone and everything you've done with her.
Even if you didn't co-sign for this auto, aren't one of its registered owners, haven't been linked to it in the past by getting another ticket, your wife's info is linked to you in the databases.
PROBABLY: The photo was taken, the databases interrogated for ownership information, the most recent address was listed as the new apartment, the bill was sent.
If questions persist, I can pry more. Other as yet unknown details may change the answer.
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| 6306. |
jon
springfield, MO
Age: 36
Aug 20, 2009
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Re Drake #6291 - Location
Drake - They did do a credit check on me only. How would this alert the police to my wherabouts?
I may make some phone calls as suggested.
This apartment is destined to be a ghost address for a po box I am setting up so I am not real concerned about privacy here - but still shocked that this data was so quickly and easily made available.
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| 6305. |
Ed
Southern California
Age: 69
Aug 20, 2009
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Reply to #6292 - Arizona DMV
Jimbo, a few years ago I a had very similar experience to yours with AZ DMV. New address, new insurance, smog test, drivers license and car registration. I was heading out of town by 1:00 pm. They even loaned me a screwdriver to put on new plates. This office was a main one in the Phoenix area. After dealing with California's DMV for many years, I could not believe the great treatment! I drove away with both AZ & CA drivers license!!!!!!
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| 6304. |
Jack
Ann Arbor, MI
Age: 21
Aug 20, 2009
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PO Box application
I am a just-transferred college student here in Ann Arbor. I use my parents' address as a ghost address. It is on my driver license, my credit reports, my voter registration, everything. Today, I tried to get a PO Box here in Ann Arbor.
I was unable to heed JJL's advice to deal with a postal clerk of the opposite sex. Instead, I dealt with the only clerk at the counter: an older gentleman who was being difficult with every request given to him by all the customers preceding me.
I told him that I would like to apply for a PO Box, and after he asked for ID, I put my passport and driver license on the table.
But then he asked me if I had "proof of your local address here in Ann Arbor." I replied that I did not have a local address here, that I was a college student and still looking for a place. Then I mentioned that my driver license had my "permanent address" on it, "where my parents live." He said, "As soon as you get a local address, you MUST [he emphasized "must"] come back here and update this form with your local address." But after that, it was smooth sailing and I quickly had the box keys. He did not again mention his command to later update my local address, and it did not seem he made any note anywhere of it. I will see if my box gets closed anytime in the future over the issue.
I relate this story in case anyone else comes up against a postal clerk who demands "a local address." If your ghost address is far away, as mine is, figure out a reason why it is so far away and you do not have a local address. For young people with out-of-state ghost addresses who attempt to get a PO Box in an area with a university, "I am a college student" (or "I am a grad student" if you are slightly older) may suffice. But if you are much older, perhaps you just moved to the area for a job, and do not have a local address yet? Perhaps you are opening up another office of your existing business in this region and found a great deal on office space but will not be able to move in for a few months? Do some thinking!
All that said, you may not experience a hassle with your clerk: the last time I got a PO Box, the female postal clerk took my IDs and my filled-out PS-1093 and gave me my box number and keys pretty much without any questions - perhaps this was because I was in the the Postal Service facility in downtown Detroit that processes and distributes all the mail for the metro area where they handle a lot of customers, and do not have the time or desire to scrutinize every PO Box applicant. Hopefully, it will be that easy for you!
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| 6299. |
Susan
Cleveland, OH
Age: 53
Aug 20, 2009
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Re: #6285
To ensure that assets (house, LLC, etc) are transferred to the person you want them to go to after you die, you should prepare a will.
This can be a private document, as it is only filed with the probate court after death. But don't keep the will in a bank safe deposit box, as these are sealed upon the death of the box holder, even if there is a co-renter who is still living. And, when it is opened, a person from the local auditor's office will be there to document the contents of the box.
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| 6298. |
Roger
Baytown, Texas
Age: 59
Aug 20, 2009
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Speed cameras
There was an article in the Houston paper recently about red light cameras. Someone was fighting a ticket and made a FOI request for the names of others who received red light violations. He was given personal information of over 10,000 people who had paid with a check,the bank name, account number,address, etc. There never was an explaination of why the city retained this information after the ticket was paid. A city employee "resigned" shortly thereafter. The lesson is always pay this type of thing with cash or a money order.
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| 6297. |
Brian
Detroit MI
Age: 21
Aug 20, 2009
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#6291 - location revealed
Jon, I urge you to study the ticket and find some phone numbers to call. Ask them why they did not mail the ticket to the address on the car registration and how exactly they acquired your apartment mailing address. Ask them why the apartment address "superseded" the registration address (was it because of locality)?
Please post again with the answers they give you so we can all learn something!
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| 6294. |
Drake
LA, CA
Age: 34
Aug 20, 2009
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6291 - Location revealed
Jon, several questions come to mind about the situation you described. But without prying further, here are some things to think about:
Both of your (real) names are found at the electricity provider. This pollutes your compartmentalization efforts.
When you rented this apartment, did they run a credit check?This links you to the new address and becomes a data point that bridges the updated address to everything in your past. It especially points the way to the electricity company.
The most likely culprit is the new apartment.
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| 6293. |
Mark
Dutch Harbor, Ak
Age: 35
Aug 20, 2009
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Speed sprays, plate covers, etc
There was a Mythbusters special that completely debunked the use of sprays on license plates, plate covers, etcMy best advice is to just obey the law. You will not be a target!
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