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In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth Of Personal Data
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:14:58 -0500
In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth Of Personal Data By Robert O'Harrow Jr. It began in 1997 as a company that sold credit data to the insurance industry. But over the next seven years, as it acquired dozens of other companies, Alpharetta, Ga.-based ChoicePoint Inc. became an all-purpose commercial source of personal information about Americans, with billions of details about their homes, cars, relatives, criminal records and other aspects of their lives. To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22269-2005Jan19.html?referrer =emailarticle Would you like to send this article to a friend? Go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/admin/emailfriend?contentId=A22269- 2005Jan19&sent=no&referrer=emailarticle ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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