Reply #40: Three more things about Choicepiont

[RazzleDazzle]

and someone should probably verify --

1. Founded by fundamentalists, big time

2. Something about voter registration rolls IN ADDITION to the felon purge in FL. Trying to remember...seems to me there's been some legislative push (passed? not passed?) to coordinate and clean up voter registration rolls elsewhere than FL (was this part of HAVA, part of proposed "fixes" to HAVA??) and ChoicePoint is already involved in building the databases that incorporate voter registration data with other records. They would be ideally suited for any of this "work" for states, and then they'd own that data too just like they own FL's data.

3. Weren't they involved with that little mini-scandal about the U.S. or a U.S. company buying voter registration rolls from Mexico? And maybe Nicaragua??


This is a very, very bad company. However good or nice or positive it started out, there's really a limit to what info should be collected on individuals, I think.

And along those lines, I rather doubt that the company comes under ANY laws that protect individuals at all. They probably don't themselves collect and report credit data and that's the only data I can think of for which consumers are somewhat protected.

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Yeah, MelissaB's got some of this in post 34.