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[privacy] FTC Hasn't Paid Victims of Breach at ChoicePoint
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:09:14 GMT
Via The Boston Globe (AP). [snip] Nearly eight months after regulators trumpeted a settlement with ChoicePoint Inc. over a data breach, the government has not paid any money to victims from a $5 million fund that was to be set up as part of the agreement. The Federal Trade Commission also has not yet implemented procedures for how the 800 fraud victims it has identified so far can be compensated from the fund, nor has it hired anyone to administer it , said FTC spokeswoman Claudia Bourne Farrell. [snip] More: http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/09/21/ftc_hasnt_paid_victims_of_breach_at_choicepoint/ - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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