"Private investigators using information brokers are simply lazy," said Robert Ellis Smith, editor and publisher of a newsletter, Privacy Journal.

Privacy Journal, November, 1998.

He continues to write and publish Privacy Journal, and is often called to speak and testify concerning privacy rights.

"Privacy Journal," one of the longest running newsletters in North America, celebrated its thirty-eighth anniversary of continuous monthly publishing in November 2012.

California and Minnesota protect the privacy of their citizens better than any other states, while the federal government does a poor job, a study by Privacy Journal says.

"Today business is saying that they are opting for voluntary compliance," Robert Ellis Smith, editor of The Privacy Journal.

Even some advocates of privacy, like Robert Ellis Smith, publisher of Privacy Journal, a monthly newsletter, said such records should be public.

"It's certainly manipulative in that it invades people's privacy," said Robert Ellis Smith, publisher of the Privacy Journal, a Washington newsletter.

As Robert Ellis Smith, the publisher of Privacy Journal, recently noted, the 1890 article offered insights that well apply today.

A total of 34 states, about 20 in the last year, have adopted their own measures, according to a study by Robert E. Smith, publisher of Privacy Journal.