February 09, 2005
Choicepoint: How the It Works with Government
In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth Of Personal Data (washingtonpost.com)
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.
Posted by rshah at February 9, 2005 09:32 AM