[IP] In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth Of Personal Data

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

 In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth Of Personal Data
 
 By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
 
 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.
 
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