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LexisNexis Settles with FTC
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:32:41 -0500
From the Palm Beach Florida Post http://tinyurl.com/2tr6p6 The LexisNexis Group of British publishing giant Reed Elsevier Inc. has agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over data breaches that compromised the personal information of thousands of Americans at its Seisint unit in Boca Raton. Under the deal reached Thursday, LexisNexis agrees to maintain a wide-ranging data security program, to be confirmed by periodic third-party audits. But it avoided a stiff fine such as the one levied against former rival ChoicePoint, which paid $15 million to settle similar charges two years ago. The FTC was able to fine ChoicePoint because credit reports were taken, and under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the agency can levy fines in those instances. With LexisNexis, no credit reports were taken. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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