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A new twist on collateral damage or sorry if you got victimized.
ChoicePoint made the news again recently when it was belatedly revealed that it had provided confidential personal information on 145,000 U.S. residents to identity thieves posing as legitimate business people. So far, according to an NPR report last week, 750 of those people have been victimized by the thieves.
How did ChoicePoint react to their damaging mistake? Well, at first it did nothing, claiming later that it did not want to interfere with a criminal investigation. The, when pushed, it sent out letters to the 145,000 victims, telling them they were at risk.
That's it. Letters. Just letters telling the victims that they'd been had and they'd better do something to protect themselves.
Here's the part that gets me. ChoicePoint is supposed to be the nation's top expert on personal information, so how is it that it cheerfully provides such information to a bogus company? Isn't the whole point of a company like ChoicePoint to protect others from being cheated by cheats? If it can't protect itself, why should others expect it to protect them?
The latest ChoicePoint fiasco cries out for investigation. Are there only 145,000 victims, or are there many more? Do all the victims belong to the same political party by any chance? What price will ChoicePoint be asked to pay for the massive damage its apparent negligence has caused?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/02/28/hsorensen.DTL
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If I recall
ChoicePoint at one point had some very interesting investors, I believe it I read in a bood that was the Bin Laden family. I think they cry out for an investigation, period. But that won't happen either.
They are the company
that purged the Florida voter rolls taking off democrats who otherwise had every right to vote, even if Al Gore didn't win with the most votes(which I have no doubt that he did) he would have taken the vote in Florida, hands down, if it had not been for ChoicePoint's part in the election fraud of 2000. Since they were paid many times more than a reasonable fee for researching the voter rolls many of us believe that they were in direct collusion with Katherine Harris, from the start.
Proud member of the reality based community
Yes, they have been involved
in many things; I'm not sure if they're in the voting machine biz, but they wanted to be, from what I've read. Sick.
It's bigger than that, too
http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/khashoggi-911_2.html
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. Dorothy Day
Overlapping
http://www.trytolive.com/cor334.htm
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. Dorothy Day
CORPORATE SCANDALS
THE MEDIA IS COVERING UP SO MUCH CORPORATE ROBBERY, FRAUD AND OBSTRUCTION THAT THE CITIZENS SHOULD REMOVE THE ENTIRE MEDIA!!!