Business and government collect vast amounts of information about individuals. Government Records and Your Privacy at www.guess-what.com/files.htm provides an overview of the types of information that can be found in public government databases and how easy it is to access that information. "Individual reference services" is the business of locating, identifying, or verifying the identity of individuals through information in computerized databases. Due to public concern about these practices, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) studied the Individual Reference Services industry. You can read a copy of the resulting report at the FTC's Consumer Information Privacy Workshop at www.ftc.gov/privacy/reports.htm (see Individual Reference Services: A Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress; formerly www.ftc.gov/bcp/privacy2/index.html). You can see examples of companies that offer individual reference services at the CDB Infotek site at www.cdb.com/public, and the Information America site at www.infoam.com. One of the most notorious corporate databases is Lexis-Nexis's P-trak. You can find an index to information on P-trak at rom.oit.gatech.edu/~willday/ptrak. At the Privacy Info Source Web page, www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/HTML/monroe_priv.html, you can find an index to businesses and other organizations involved in creating databases of personal information; the index is organized into sections on credit, personal information, medical information, criminal information, and private investigators. To observe one aspect of the debate about databases and invasion of privacy, check out the video tape For Sale: Government Information (Computers, Freedom & Privacy Video Library, ISBN 1-57844-019-X).