i believe your worries are well founded, and not nearly paranoid enough, Echoes. i don't know who has the data banks that hold our information, and i don't know anyone who does know, do you ? i know i'm scanned at the grocery store, the doctors office, the bank, and even online... but there are no "data police", no personal data security guards, that i know of... and already 80% of americans are posting personal information on FaceBook, a site so vulnerable to hacking that it puts the information highway to shame. i hope you keep thinking about this, as i will be, and we can talk again. best wishes,, Gus