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ChoicePoint
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ChoicePoint Corporation
ChoicePoint company logo
Type Public (NYSE: CPS)
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Location Alpharetta, GA

United States
Key people Derek V. Smith, CEO
Douglas C. Curling, President/COO
Steven W. Surbaugh, CFO
J. Michael de Janes, Gen. Counsel
David T. Lee, Exec. VP
Industry Business Services
Products "Identification and credential verification services"
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Employees 4,600
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Website www.choicepoint.com
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ChoicePoint NYSE: CPS is a corporation based in Alpharetta, near Atlanta, Georgia, USA, which claims to be the "nation's leading supplier of identification and credential verification services". According to the TSA, the firm keeps more than 17 billion records of individuals and businesses, which it sells to more than half of America's top 1,000 companies. It also contracts with over 7,500 state and local government agencies, including law enforcement.

ChoicePoint maintains a database of names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit reports, and other sensitive information. Its DNA laboratory aided in the identification of victims of the WTC attacks, and data supplied by ChoicePoint was used in the Beltway Snipers investigation. Choicepoint also assisted the Transportation Security Administration in investigating 112,278 applicants. The US Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children credit the corporation with assisting in the return of ~800 missing children.

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