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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 23rd, 2005 @ 11:30am

   
   

   That's just it. ChoicePoint didn't leak the data. ChoicePoint sold it to them. Anyone can set up a company and buy the data they (CP) sell. (Apparently they do some cursory background checks, but obviously not very thorough.) That's what ChoicePoint does, they sell the data. The data was sold, as it is hundreds of times a day. The only thing different in this case is that the buyers were businesses set up fraudulently by a ring of identity theives. The only crime (so far) is registering the business fraudulently, and whatever fraud the ID thieves have perpetrated on the unlucky, hapless individuals whose data they used. Sure, they sold it to someone you'd rather not have it, but they do that anyway - telemarketers, direct mail, probably even spammers.

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   to paraphrase the matt mcannahey character in edtv

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 23rd, 2005 @ 5:18pm

   
   

   Some of those ChoicePoint executives probably have made some interesting purchasing decisions and have other interesting data...

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   one can file a tort claim against anyone

   

   sly squirrel, Feb 24th, 2005 @ 9:43am

   
   

   You need to do nothing to file any tort, other than to pay the filing fee.
   
   I think people with real cases will probably do so and make it hurt.
   

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   Nick, Feb 25th, 2005 @ 8:27am

   
   

   ChoicePoint is real buddy-buddy with the current powermongers in the gub'ment. They might get a (highly publicized) slap on the wrist, but too bad it will be with a wet noodle.

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