Choicepoint, April 15
- Inside Bay Area claims “Protecting consumers’ personal information may not be possible.” Former Congressman Bob Barr, writing for Findlaw, disagrees in an insightful article.
- Robert Gelman suggests that government only buy from vendors who voluntarily follow fair information practices in the second half of his DMNews editorial, “ . . And Into the Fire” [link to http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=32522 no longer works]
- Businessweek has commentary, “Personal Data Theft: It’s Outrageous
,” with their story summary “It’s long past the time to hold companies that collect personal info to higher legal standards when it comes to protecting that data.”
My Choicepoint category archive includes extensive coverage of the most recent Choicepoint ID theft issue.