The credit bureau's and ChoicePoint ( a spin off from one of the bureaus, Equifax) have created a world where credit histories can be used to open new accounts with credit card issuers, apply for ...
ChoicePoint’s data breach early last year was the first major such incident we actually heard about. That we heard about it was thanks to a then little-known 2003 California law requiring companies ...
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), for instance, sent a letter Thursday to the head of Westlaw, a data-mining firm based in Minnesota, asking that the company suspend its Web-based "People-Find" feature. ...