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BNET Industries: ChoicePoint is a provider of identification and credential verification services. At Dec 31 2007, Co. had four segments: Insurance Services, which provides data, analytics, software...; ChoicePoint Inc. company page on BNET »

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Company Discovers Low TCO With BlackBerry - Solution Pays for Itself in 11 Days: ChoicePoint is the leading provider of identification and credential verification services for business, government and individuals. Already deployed with BlackBerry, ChoicePoint wanted detailed ROI metrics on how their users benefited from the solution. The numbers would be used to justify expenditures to senior management on new servers and IT services....; Tags: RIM BlackBerry, TCO, ChoicePoint Inc., Roi/Tco, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware; Case studies
The Big Brother Awards: In Montreal, Canada, at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in May 2007, Privacy International presented the first International Big Brother Awards. The "winners" of the Big Brother Awards are, in the words of Privacy International: the government and private sector organisations which have done the...; Tags: Nominee, Privacy International, U.K., ChoicePoint Inc., Wikipedia, Wiki, Government, Web Site Development, Online Communications, Internet, Chad Perrin; Blog posts 2008-03-22
ChoicePoint to pay 15M for data breach: Remember the little data breach that occured nearly a year ago thatpossibly compromised the personal information of 163,000Americans? Well ChoicePoint settled with the FTC for a 15 milliondollar fine. A drop in the bucket to ChoicePoint but the largestfine in FTC history. Read the details here:; Tags: ChoicePoint Inc.; Blog posts 2006-01-27
LexisNexis and ChoicePoint Admit They Concealed Previous Breaches: LexisNexis, the data broker that last month notified 32,000 people that their personal data had been stolen from company-owned databases, nowadmits that a total of 310,000 people had their data stolen. The company's databases were breached nearly 60 times over the course of thepast two years. At Senate...; Tags: ChoicePoint Inc., database, Jaqui, LexisNexis, security; Discussion threads 2005-04-20
ChoicePoint: We're sorry for data leak: Time to force the issue with legislationThis is definately the case of closing the barn door after the barn burned down and the insurance company is depositing a check in your bank account. They apologize after they were forced into acknowledging there were more than just CA residents affected....; Tags: ChoicePoint Inc., IT Security Guy, pcsecguy, security; Discussion threads 2005-03-16

Clampdown looms as ChoicePoint reveals leaks: Data brokers want to keep the cash cow flowingChoicePoint wants to make sure they can differentiate between people with the same name. Well la-de-da. He still hasn't said anything to stop legislation that forces notification and approval before selling social security numbers. Only law enforcement with a warrant...; Tags: ChoicePoint Inc., IT Security Guy, pcsecguy, security, sensitive personal information, Social Security, social security number, SSN; Discussion threads 2005-03-17

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Identity Theft: The Internet Connection: Concern is growing about identity theft - where one person assumes the identity of another by stealing personally identifiable information PII, such as credit card or Social Security numbers. High profile incidents disclosed in early 2005 involving ChoicePoint, Bank of America, and LexisNexis, where the PII of more than a...; Tags: Internet Connection, The Library Of Congress, Personally Identifiable Information, Identity Theft, Internet, Security; White papers 2005-03-16
Smith: The Carrot-and-Stick Approach - Federal Agencies Should Reward Companies That Ensure the Privacy of Consumer Data: As evidenced by the Federal Trade Commission's FTC record-setting fine against ChoicePoint, the federal government is getting serious about holding businesses responsible for the protection of consumer information. In addition to the actions taken by FTC and other governing bodies, several members of Congress have introduced bills designed to protect...; Tags: Agency, Credit Card, Privacy, FTC, Social Security, Identity Theft, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Government, Security, Sales, Finance; White papers 2006-04-03
Why Internet security is more about asking questions than finding answers: Sometimes the mere exercise of questioning how someone might exploit a system--no matter how dubious or obscure the method--can help prevent it from actually happening. Jonathan Yarden explains. In February of 2005, ChoicePoint, an Atlanta-based company that provides consumer data services to insurance companies, government...; Tags: Internet, Jonathan Yarden, Network security, Internet security, security, Internet Security Focus Newsletter, Networking; Technical articles 2005-06-09
Bank of America loses a million customer records: Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today! By ...; Tags: Bank of America Corp., tape; Technical articles 2005-02-28
Year-long hack threatens 800,000 UCLA students, faculty, and staff: Today, the Associated Press reported that University of California Los Angeles UCLA officials have alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff that their names, social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates were exposed during a year of data security breaches. The attacks began in October 2005...; Tags: Computer Crime, Cybercrime, data security, data theft, Education, Hacking, Identity Theft, law, privacy, Security, UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles; Blog posts 2006-12-12
Is Internet security more about asking questions than finding answers?: Is Internet security more about asking questions than finding answers?Do you agree with Jonathan Yarden that it's sometimes more important to ask the right questions about security than it is to find the answers? Does your organization follow this philosophy, or does it assume the security precautions in place are...; Tags: debate@..., Internet, Internet security, security; Discussion threads 2005-03-04
Payroll hole exposes dozens of companies: Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...; Tags: SECURITY, Operational accounting, Payroll hole, payroll, PayMaxx, Aaron Greenspan; Technical articles 2005-02-28
'Perfect storm' for new privacy laws?: Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today! By ...; Tags: Corporate communications, privacy law; Technical articles 2005-03-01
Big brother 1984 Spam, Pish and Spim: The book 1984 is so close now that we are now seen at alot of places we go. There are cameras at most city intersections and public places, some have audio and some have other devices like smell for bomb detection. Rfid is being used to help move and reorder...; Tags: anonymity, off-topic, Pish, spim, Universe, zlito@...; Discussion threads 2005-03-15
Identity Theft National Law (choicepoint): The ChoicePoint incident of theft of 145,000 person's personal data caused Diane Feinstein (D-CA) to propose national law similar to california law. This would notify victims. Since this might not have been noticed immediately as not a network break in but bogus companies, I'd like to suggest one...; Tags: Dr Dij, fraud, identity theft, personal info, security; Discussion threads 2005-02-24
'Perfect storm' for new privacy laws?: 'Perfect storm' for new privacy laws?article root'Perfect storm' for new privacy laws?The rash of high-profile security breaches in the past month at ChoicePoint, Bank of America, and other data holders has captured the attention of a growing number of U.S. lawmakers. They are looking into reshaping federal laws that dictate...; Tags: identity, new privacy law, Newsletter Editor, Perfect Storm, privacy law; Discussion threads 2005-03-01
Download our fill-in-the-blank privacy policy: Every organization should have a privacy policy in place to protect the valuable personal data that customers entrust to your Web site. Download our fill-in-the-blank version to help you beef up your existing policy or use it to build one from scratch.On March 7, Privacy International held the third annual...; Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Beth Blakely, privacy policy, TRUSTe; Technical articles 2001-04-10
?Outsourcing Thefts = Threat to the Offshore Industry?: http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/offshoring/0,3800003026,39129426,00.htmTake a gander at the URL above. As consumers are made more aware, and get angrier with data theft, could incidents like this coupled with poor support, help to continue to undermine off-shoring sensitive IT jobs, and other that have protected information requirements? How will future legislation affect this issue?...; Tags: call center, data theft, off-topic, outsourced, outsourcing, privacy, Synthetic; Discussion threads 2005-04-20
Are you in compliance with Gramm-Leach-Bliley storage requirements?: The Gramm-Leach-BlileyAct is aimed at financial institutions and is enforced by eight separate federalagencies and the states. Gramm-Leach-Bliley providesfor a fairly broad interpretation of the phrase "financialinstitution" and not only affects banks, insurance companies, and securityfirms, but also brokers, lenders, tax preparers, and real estate settlementcompanies, among others.How does this...; Tags: Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Scott Lowe MCSE, financial company, storage, compliance, financial; Technical articles 2005-07-26

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