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[I]n February 2005, Choicepoint announced that the company sold personal information on at least 145,000 Americans to a criminal ring engaged in identity theft. EPIC urged the company to make available to those whose personal information was negligently disclosed the same information made available to the crooks. "It is not only a matter of fairness, but ... a critical public safety concern that these individuals have in their possession the same information about them that you gave to criminals," said the February 18 letter from EPIC.
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Choicepoint said in a release that it first noticed the “possible signs of fraudulent activities†in October and informed the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The department reportedly requested that the company not make its suspicions public until it had ample time to investigate.
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Seventh, the Choicepoint policy allows the company to sell full reports for anti-fraud purposes. While in theory this exception seems appropriate, almost any transaction can have some fraud risk. If a broad fraud exemption is maintained, it will allow the sale of reports even when the fraud risk is minimal or a proxy for wishing to collect information for some other purpose.
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