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[privacy] Reed Elsevier Seeks to Acquire ChoicePoint for $4.1B
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:00:52 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Washington Post. [snip] Reed Elsevier PLC, the owner of the LexisNexis Group, is seeking to acquire ChoicePoint Inc. in a $4.1 billion cash deal that would create a global data brokering service. By combining database giants LexisNexis and ChoicePoint, Reed Elsevier would handle information about hundreds of millions of people and sophisticated software to handle it. Both companies play key roles in law enforcement, homeland security and intelligence, as well as providing information to the private sector. Both also have been hit by identity theft and security problems. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR200802210 0809.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHvdhwq1pz9mNUZTMRAhEPAKCn5wo6UjGQYH3oKgow42Ugj3+hLgCfZ1aj Cvw8iljkwYmwaqkCPF1ki+E= =azZm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "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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