DATE: Monday, June 16, 1997                 TAG: 9706160028

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY NINA BERNSTEIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES 

                                            LENGTH:   22 lines

FOCUS: NEW THREATS TO PRIVACY

As one woman's chilling tale shows, the information age can threaten individual privacy. Personal data given freely or taken electronically can be turned to darker purposes. MEMO: For complete text see microfilm ILLUSTRATION: THE NEW YORK TIMES photos

Beverly Dennis, 57, of Massillon, Ohio, has filed a class-action

suit against Metromail Corp., a data-marketing company.

Metromail uses Texas prisoners to enter surveys into computers. An

inmate sent Dennis a threatening letter using information he picked

up while entering data.

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