ChoicePoint - Jebbie's favorite vote scrubbing company in the news again

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

This time they sold (possibly) YOUR information to fake companies:

Database giant gives access to fake firms
ChoicePoint warns more than 30,000 they may be at risk


Criminals posing as legitimate businesses have accessed critical personal data stored by ChoicePoint Inc., a firm that maintains databases of background information on virtually every U.S. citizen, MSNBC.com has learned.


The incident involves a wide swath of consumer data, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit reports and other information. ChoicePoint aggregates and sells such personal information to government agencies and private companies.

Last week, the company notified between 30,000 and 35,000 consumers in California that their personal data may have been accessed by "unauthorized third parties," according to ChoicePoint spokesman James Lee.

California law requires firms to disclose such incidents to the state's consumers when they are discovered. It is the only state with such a requirement but such data thefts are rarely limited to a single geographic area.

Lee said law enforcement officials have so far advised the firm that only Californians need to be notified.

"The only incident that has been confirmed is in California," he said.

ChoicePoint maintains a dossier on virtually every American consumer, according to Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University professor and author of "The Digital Person."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969799

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1238320

[Karenina]

1. TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS!!!

Every plastic card scanned gives somebody, somewhere, information.
Who evaluates these bits and bytes? Who decides how they will be used?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Does this include Fatboy's medical records?

:shrug:

[Karenina]

3. *Blithering blivet got himself

some holy disappearing oil for such stuff.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Yep exactly

[realFedUp]

5. ahhhh...how are consumers alerted in this state?

Can we get a class action suit against
these criminals? Lockyer?

[Karenina]

6. :SIGH: n/t