Pilots Arrested for Disability Payments

Hilton wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050719/...ility_payments

I wonder whether their pilot certificat numbers were the same as their social
security numbers, and if so, would they still have been able to do the matching
if the numbers were different?

I don't condone anyone lying to either the FAA or SSA, or to their doctor, but
isn't this the kind of database data mining that the privacy watchers have been
warning us about if we continue to use our SS numbers to identify ourselves for
non-SS purposes?

Dave

----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups
----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----

Dave
You got it! I began squawking about this over 20 years ago and got
poo-pooed as a radical......UmmmHmmmm I also forecast one day having a
number visible to special equipment tatooed on everyones forehead and
it all ties into a govt computer base. Back in the mid 60's I forecast
that all pilots would eventually have to have an instrument rating
starting with the commercial pilots and look what happened?! National
Identity number, papers, ummmm ...............
I'll be dead by the time it all takes place but its not far off.
Ol Shy & Bashful with an AOPA number of 0198581 if that dates me...|!

"Dave Butler" x@yy wrote in message
...
Hilton wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050719/...ility_payments

I wonder whether their pilot certificat numbers were the same as their
social security numbers, and if so, would they still have been able to do
the matching if the numbers were different?

I don't condone anyone lying to either the FAA or SSA, or to their doctor,
but isn't this the kind of database data mining that the privacy watchers
have been warning us about if we continue to use our SS numbers to
identify ourselves for non-SS purposes?

Dave


Well the government is sending them a check every month. I think they should
do more than checking other government records to see if they are commiting
fraud.

Would you consider it a privacy violation if they went after people who were
getting SSI checks and they noticed those same people were getting pay
checks?

"Hilton" wrote in message
nk.net...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050719/...ility_payments


What surprised us was that their names were published in papers and appeared
in print on television news.

Kathy

Kathy wrote:

What surprised us was that their names were published in papers and appeared
in print on television news.

Why? It's been common practice to report the names of adults arrested in the
U.S. for at least as long as I've been alive.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.

Yep,
It is public information.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech