FTC: Consumer Privacy Comments Concerning The Knorok Detective Agency--P974806 The Knorok
Detective Agency
Secretary, Federal Trade Commission Re:Support of Self Regulation Dear Mr. Secretary: This letter is in response to the Commission's request for additional comments following the hearing held 10 June 1997. As a licensed private detective I am a regular user of public and non-public records (such as credit headers), and support the proposition of self regulation. The data that I regularly access and use in reports to clients has a beneficial use and need in society. It is important that a free flow of information be available to support commerce and our judicial system. It further allows the public, who does not have the resources to manage all of the problems they face to defend itself without looking to government for help. Additional regulation would create more barriers to us that today save lives, prevent fraud and bring families together. I am required to keep information confidential and maintain a high degree of accuracy in my reports due to laws and the rest of the courts and market place. To have targets of my investigations able to browse around in my inquiries and data, or opt out of the databases that arc private and public would be the death of my industry and freedom. The prevention of wrong doing and protection from fraud are real test of the use of such data. Privacy protection can be managed through our industries self regulation and uses and distribution. My industry had stated a willingness and desires to self regulate. My industry must have the opportunity to self regulate and welcomes the government's help in enforcing the rules through the industry's efforts. I ask that you support self regulation and work with the industry to successfully bring about policies the we can all live with in a free society. Sincerely yours, Dennis T. KoronkiewiczDennis T. Koronkiewicz
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