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	ChoicePoint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) is a corporation based in Alpharetta, near Atlanta, Georgia, USA, which claims to be the "nation's leading supplier of identification and credential verification services".
		Its DNA laboratory aided in the identification of victims of the WTC attacks, and data supplied by ChoicePoint was used in the Beltway Snipers investigation.
		ChoicePoint Vice President Martin Fagan has admitted that at least 8,000 names were incorrectly listed in this fashion when the company passed on a list given by the state of Texas, these 8,000 names were removed prior to the election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ChoicePoint (2600 words)

	ChoicePoint - About ChoicePoint/Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		ChoicePoint has grown from the nation's premier source of data to the insurance industry into the premier provider of decision-making insight to businesses and government.
		ChoicePoint keeps abreast of the issues and trends in anticipation of what we believe to be a future opportunity of risk assessment information delivery.
		ChoicePoint shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CPS.
	www.choicepoint.com /about/overview.html (183 words)

	ChoicePoint - SourceWatch
		ChoicePoint, a corporation based near Atlanta, Georgia, USA, which claims to be the "nation's leading supplier of identification and credential verification services," is the company whose DBT subsidiary spoiled the electoral roll in Florida enabling George W. Bush to "win" the 2000 presidential election.
		ChoicePoint has been criticized, by many critics of the 2000 election, for having a bias in favor of the Republican Party, for knowingly using inaccurate data, and for racial discrimination.
		ChoicePoint, as a matter of policy, does not verify the accuracy of its data and argues that it is the user's responsibility to verify accuracy.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=ChoicePoint (1162 words)

	Choicepoint Settles Data Security Breach Charges; to Pay $10 Million in Civil Penalties, $5 Million for Consumer Redress
		Choicepoint had publicized privacy principles that address the confidentiality and security of personal information it collects and maintains with statements such as, “ChoicePoint allows access to your consumer reports only by those authorized under the FCRA.
		ChoicePoint is required to verify the identity of businesses that apply to receive consumer reports, including making site visits to certain business premises and auditing subscribers’ use of consumer reports.
		ChoicePoint will be subject to standard record-keeping and reporting provisions to allow the FTC to monitor compliance.
	www.ftc.gov /opa/2006/01/choicepoint.htm (793 words)

	For ChoicePoint, a theft lays bare the downside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		ChoicePoint and similar data sellers pitch their troves of private information as a hope for restoring personal security to a society fraught with anxiety over terrorism and crime.
		ChoicePoint, which became a stock-market favorite by acquiring a host of companies that collect public records and personal data, now is the subject of multiple inquiries.
		ChoicePoint says DBT had warned state officials of potential mistakes, only to be told to proceed; it adds that it didn't acquire DBT until after the purging of the voter rolls.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05123/498345.stm (2745 words)

	ChoicePoint's error sparks talk of ID theft law: Internet News: The Industry Standard
		ChoicePoint, based in Alpharetta, Georgia, reached agreement Feb. 16 with 19 state attorneys general to tell the 145,000 potential victims that ID thieves may have gained access to personal information such as Social Security numbers and credit reports.
		ChoicePoint has access to about 19 billion public records, and the company reportedly has information on virtually every adult living in the U.S. In addition to calls for legislation from privacy advocates, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, has called for congressional hearings on a piece of privacy legislation she introduced this year.
		ChoicePoint remains unsure of how many people will be affected by the scam because the company doesn't know the extent of the thieves' ability to use the personal data, Bernknopf said.
	www.thestandard.com /internetnews/0001015.php (1176 words)

	ChoicePoint Discloses Federal Probes In Data Scandal - E-business & Business Technology News by TechWeb
		ChoicePoint Inc. on Friday said federal authorities have begun inquiries into last year's theft of personal data affecting tens of thousands of consumers in 50 states, as well as recent trading in company stock by two of its top executives.
		In a disclosure report filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, ChoicePoint said it had received notice that the SEC was conducting an "informal inquiry" into the circumstances surrounding last fall's identity theft.
		ChoicePoint also said the Federal Trade Commission was conducting a separate investigation into the company's compliance of federal laws governing consumer information security and related issues.
	www.techweb.com /wire/ebiz/60405814 (962 words)

	www.GovExec.com - Private Eye (3/16/04)
		ChoicePoint won accolades in 2003 for leading federal and local officials to the Washington snipers, by mining name and license plate data the company owns to identify the suspects.
		ChoicePoint's intention, as its chief executive, Derek Smith, wrote in a letter to shareholders last year, is "to create a safer, more secure society." That's a lofty goal.
		ChoicePoint said her insurance carrier was at fault, since it supplied the claim data in the first place.
	www.govexec.com /features/0304/0304s1.htm (2739 words)

	Background on the Choicepoint Fiasco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		ChoicePoint has confirmed that scammers culled the personal information of tens of thousands of Americans in a recent attack on its consumer database, resulting in 750 individual cases of identity theft.
		Jones said that ChoicePoint was misled via a detailed effort, as the criminals used previously stolen identities to set up what appeared to be legitimate business licenses, phone numbers and addresses for the organizations they claimed to be when applying for accounts with the company.
		ChoicePoint has always been a proponent of responsible use of consumer data," he said, "and we remain hopeful that there will be a national discussion for improving policies that involves legislators, privacy experts and industry, to help establish better ground rules for this issue moving forward."
	www.choicepointlitigation.com /gpage.html (655 words)

	Shifting sands in data leak
		ChoicePoint holds an estimated 19 billion public records pertaining to virtually every adult in the country, although not one of us has authorized the company to profit from our personal info.
		ChoicePoint is now one of the leading data brokers in the country, acting as a sort of private intelligence service for both corporate and government clients (including the FBI).
		All ChoicePoint does, he said, is go to the trouble of aggregating all those billions of files and thus make it readily available to anyone willing to pay a premium for fast access.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/25/BUGJUBGM881.DTL (888 words)

	komo news \| Nearly 3,200 Washingtonians Affected By ChoicePoint Breach
		ChoicePoint learned of the problem in October but, until this month, did not begin notifying the 144,778 people across the nation that it said were possibly affected by the identity theft scam.
		ChoicePoint said any business that is not publicly traded or not a government agency will have to be recredentialed to use its services.
		ChoicePoint said it is almost done notifying by mail all of the potential victims.
	www.komotv.com /stories/35405.htm (1032 words)

	ChoicePoint Halts Some Data Sales, Info Warehouser Also Says Feds Probing Top Execs' Stock Sales - CBS News
		ChoicePoint says it was prearranged under a plan approved by the company's board that was announced on Nov. 3.
		ChoicePoint has said repeatedly it learned of the breach in October, but delayed disclosing it because it said California authorities had asked it to keep quiet to protect the fraud investigation.
		As for the SEC inquiry, ChoicePoint said the agency has notified the company that it is conducting an informal inquiry of the stock sales as well as the circumstances surrounding identity thefts in connection with the breach of its database.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/03/04/tech/main678077.shtml (1163 words)

	EPIC Choicepoint Page
		Choicepoint is legally in a better position to renege on its promises, as it does not acknowledge a direct relationship with consumers that could be the basis of a legal action.
		EPIC warned legislators that Choicepoint plays a "shell game" with their products--Choicepoint doesn't always specify in policy debates whether they are discussing their regulated or unregulated reports, thus confusing the public and lawmakers.
		ChoicePoint recently admitted (pdf) that it had sold personal information on 145,000 people to a criminal ring involved in identity theft.
	epic.org /privacy/choicepoint (6038 words)

	The ChoicePoint Identity Theft Data Security Breach: What It Means for You
		Choicepoint is one of the largest data aggregators and resellers in the country.
		ChoicePoint compiles data from many sources including public records (court records, property tax assessor files, professional licenses, vehicle registration, bankruptcy records, and so on), along with credit reports, and consumer demographic and lifestyle data.
		ChoicePoint used to charge $20 to order a copy of the public records they have compiled about you, but now they are allowing consumers to get a free copy of their public records report.
	www.privacyrights.org /ar/CPResponse.htm (1660 words)

	Data 'fear factor'
		Most recently, four consumer lawsuits were filed against ChoicePoint Inc., which said in February that it accidentally sold personal data on 145,000 consumers to identity thieves.
		According to Bro, when ChoicePoint first started notifying California residents about the security breach, attorneys general in 18 other states caught wind of it and told the company that they required notification as well.
		ChoicePoint has offered one year of free credit monitoring to the 145,000 consumers affected by the data leak.
	www.law.com /jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1115370308745 (1426 words)

	Data theft affects 145,000 nationwide - Security - MSNBC.com
		ChoicePoint pledged late Wednesday to notify all the consumers affected by the theft.
		"ChoicePoint Inc. should immediately inform all persons whose personal information is known to have been compromised, providing them with as much detailed information as possible about the breach and when it occurred, and urging them to check their credit reports for new accounts or suspicious activity," the letter said.
		When ChoicePoint discovered in October that unidentified persons had created sham companies to access its databases, sheriff’s investigators set up a sting operation that resulted in the Oluwatosin's arrest.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6979897 (894 words)

	ChoicePoint Finds More Cases Of Illegal Data Access
		In addition, ChoicePoint found that another 4,667 individual records may have been stolen or illegally accessed in the initial theft incident, bringing the total of new notifications to 9,903, the company said in a statement.
		In one of the notices sent to consumers, ChoicePoint's chief privacy officer Carol DiBattiste stated that "Law enforcement officials are currently investigating, but have told us providing you with this notice at this time will not interfere with their investigation.
		ChoicePoint first reported the data theft in February of 2005.
	www.consumeraffairs.com /news04/2005/choicepoint02.html (746 words)

	ChoicePoint Tries To Clamp Down, Data Broker Hires TSA Official To Improve Customer Screening - CBS News
		ChoicePoint said in a statement that DiBattiste also will oversee efforts to expand a program that involves site visits to make sure customers are who they say they are.
		ChoicePoint shares fell 13 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $37.92 in early trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange, near the low end of the 52-week range of $36.35 to $47.95.
		ChoicePoint's decision to hire DiBattiste was wise, said Bruce Simpson, an analyst with William Blair & Company in Chicago.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/03/08/tech/main678810.shtml (873 words)

	Burned by ChoicePoint breach, potential ID theft victims face a lifetime of vigilance
		Lambert is one of nearly 145,000 Americans rendered vulnerable by a breach of the computer databases of ChoicePoint Inc., a leading trafficker in a growing pool of information about who we are, what we own, what we owe and even where we go.
		The ChoicePoint attack may be an example of something else -- fraud perpetuated by an organized crime ring.
		After spending hours on the phone with ChoicePoint representatives, he was told Thursday that he had to sign a release simply to find out what information the company kept on him.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/10552 (925 words)

	Emergent Chaos: Choicepoint Archives
		ChoicePoint Inc., the company that disclosed earlier this year that thieves had accessed its massive database of consumer information, said Tuesday in a regulatory filing it has sent out another 17,000 notices to people telling them they may be victims of fraud.
		I don’t know if ChoicePoint or any of its subsidiaries are actually involved in the development or deployment of the new passports for the United States, but given the track record of DHS and of these companies, I would rather stick with more basic, less technologically advanced security methods for now.
		The only problem is she works for Choicepoint (for those of you who don't know, that's the company that got in trouble for selling lots of people's personal information to people posing as government entities or something), and although she's not ugly, she doesn't attract me too much.
	www.emergentchaos.com /archives/cat_choicepoint.html (10316 words)

	ABC News: ChoicePoint Warns Consumers About Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		ChoicePoint spokesman Chuck Jones said Tuesday that the company had disclosed the notifications to the extra 17,000 people in September, and that the SEC filing doesn't represent any notifications beyond that number.
		ChoicePoint said its review of the data breach is ongoing and there could be further notices sent out.
		Several government investigations of the data breach at ChoicePoint are ongoing, including one by the SEC looking at the stock sales of the company's top two executives between the time the breach was first discovered and when it was publicly disclosed.
	abcnews.go.com /Business/FinancialSecurity/wireStory?id=1293938 (375 words)

	FTC Slaps Record Fine on ChoicePoint
		ChoicePoint is a credit report service used by more than 50,000 landlords and merchants to conduct background checks on potential tenants and customers.
		In at least one case, ChoicePoint continued to provide consumer reports for a customer whose account was repeatedly suspended for nonpayment.
		ChoicePoint Chairman and CEO Derek V. Smith issued a statement claiming he was "gratified we were able to work with the FTC and reach an agreement that protects all parties and am even more pleased that we can put this chapter behind us."
	www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/3580241 (686 words)

	Private Information Stolen from Nationwide Consumer Database
		The database is operated by Georgia-based ChoicePoint, which has mailed letters to at least 35,000 Californians who have potentially been affected.
		California is the only state that requires companies such as ChoicePoint to notify consumers in writing when their private information is stolen.
		ChoicePoint stores an estimated 19 billion public records on American residents, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and credit reports.
	www.consumeraffairs.com /news04/2005/choicepoint.html (610 words)

	bIPlog at boalt.org: Un-Spinning the ChoicePoint Scandal
		According to an interview with ChoicePoint CEO Derek Smith from a Georgia NBC television news affiliate, when a business comes to ChoicePoint requesting to purchase such data, ChoicePoint subjects this business, as a requirement for opening an account, to a "credentialing" process, one he claims is among the most rigorous in the market.
		In fact, Smith has boldly claimed that "ChoicePoint's core competency is verifying and authenticating individuals and their credentials." Yet it appears, from statements he makes later in the interview, that these individuals were able to pass muster by presenting California business licenses alone.
		It was only after this required disclosure that ChoicePoint voluntarily notified the hundreds of thousands of consumers in other states that their information had been compromised as well.
	www.boalt.org /biplog/archive/000615.html (1088 words)

	ChoicePoint fined $15m over data security breach \| The Register
		Data broker ChoicePoint was yesterday fined $15m over a data security breach that led to at least 800 cases of identity theft.
		ChoicePoint agreed to pay $10m in civil penalties (a record fine) and $5m to compensate consumers as part of a settlement with US consumer watchdog the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
		ChoicePoint's shares closed $3.35 (or 7 per cent) down at $29.95 on news of the FTC settlement on Thursday.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2006/01/27/choicepoint_ftc_settlement (620 words)

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