Data Broker to Let Clients See Reports
Apparently Choicepoint is devoping a system to let people access their own personal information that is sold to various entities:
"LOS ANGELES — An executive of embattled data broker ChoicePoint Inc. said the company is developing a system that would allow people to review their personal information that is sold to law enforcement agencies, employers, landlords and businesses.
"You will receive the reports that we have on you," Don McGuffey, the firm's vice president for data acquisition, told the state Senate's Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee in Sacramento on Wednesday.
ChoicePoint's announcement comes a month after it disclosed that thieves used previously stolen identities to create what appeared to be legitimate businesses seeking personal records.
The bandits, who operated undetected for more than a year, opened 50 accounts and received vast amounts of data on consumers, including their credit reports."
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"LOS ANGELES — An executive of embattled data broker ChoicePoint Inc. said the company is developing a system that would allow people to review their personal information that is sold to law enforcement agencies, employers, landlords and businesses.
"You will receive the reports that we have on you," Don McGuffey, the firm's vice president for data acquisition, told the state Senate's Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee in Sacramento on Wednesday.
ChoicePoint's announcement comes a month after it disclosed that thieves used previously stolen identities to create what appeared to be legitimate businesses seeking personal records.
The bandits, who operated undetected for more than a year, opened 50 accounts and received vast amounts of data on consumers, including their credit reports."
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