Re: House of IT Horrors

[rms () computerbytesman com]

This article has more details on the Steven Calderon case:

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1825287,00.asp

Richard

> I got a kick out of this, there is a page 2
>
> page1:
>
> from:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2042505,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
>
> Ghosts and goblins, haunted houses, and smashed pumpkins—sometimes the
> most harrowing horrors are only steps away from your cubicle or
> office.
>
> Just ask Steven Calderon.
>
> Calderon was in his second week working as security guard for Fry's
> Electronics when Anaheim, Calif., police walked in and arrested him
> for crimes including child molestation and rape.
>
> Fry's had requested a background check on Calderon, which was done by
> The Screening Network, a service of ChoicePoint, the $1 billion-a-year
> data broker based in Alpharetta, Ga. When it came up with criminal
> warrants and felony charges, nobody—not Fry's, not the police—stopped
> to ask if the data supplied by ChoicePoint was accurate.
>
> Calderon spent a week in jail for crimes he didn't commit because an
> identity theft report he'd filed in Norwalk, Calif., in 1993 wasn't
> connected with the criminal files that were created in his name.
>
> He went to jail for an IT error.
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