Security breach laws become state's rights issue

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The inherently anti-consumer nature of monied corporations

This article doesn't really touch on the issue of customer abuse. ChoicePoint evidently see Joe and Jane Public as nothing more than the raw data which funds their revenue. They are insultingly dismissive in their proven responses to this fiasco. At every step of the way, cover ups and lying by omission were the default practice, intended to prevent Joe and Jane Public from ever finding out about the lapses which laid them open to identity theft and all that is entailed by that :

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/privacy_invasion_is_good_for_you/

"Numerous past breaches went without notification, ChoicePoint President and COO Douglas Curling admitted under questioning from Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (Republican, Pennsylvania). Curling explained that after notifying the relevant law enforcement authorities, "no one was made aware; law enforcement didn't tell us anything." The ChoicePoint person in contact with law enforcement simply didn't appreciate the importance of the situation, he whinged.

Specter wondered aloud how a company official with enough authority to serve as liaison to law enforcement in such a matter could fail to appreciate its significance and inform others. "I can't explain it," Curling allowed. However, there have been only "45 or 50 breaches," in all, he added.

LexisNexis has also experienced a slew of security breaches followed by a slew of cover-ups, division CEO Kurt Sanford admitted. "All but 4 or 5 of the breaches were due to compromised passwords," he noted.

Speaking of the most recent debacle, in which the personal records of 310,000 victims fell into the hands of potential ID thieves, he said that the first irregularities surfaced in February of 2004. Specter wondered why it should have taken until April of 2005 for the public to be notified, but Sanford, for all his obvious intelligence and business acumen, was unable to explain this".

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Posted by: whisperycat   Posted on: 04/14/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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