Choicepoint has EVERYBODY'S personal data and it's been

[linazelle]

stolen by hackers??!!! :wtf:

BushCo's cronies are nothing but fuckups. Halliburton steals, Diebold and Sequoia do too and ChoicePoint is now handling a national database when they couldn't handle Florida's? And the media is, what else? Silent.

Wake me when this is over.

[Trillo]

1. Crooks are running everything. Steal all you can, while you can.... n/t

[fooj]

2. What will it take? OMG! It's maddening!

[jdj]

3. Is this the place in GA that someone told me got hacked into?

I went to the job office and just gave the woman my SS card and she got annoyed and said just read it and I said no way, because anyone could hear it, and she told me about this.

[qanda]

4. I just had a fraudulent charge on bank account today

My card hasn't left my possession. What can we do to protect ourselves?

[FreedomAngel82]

11. I don't have

any cards or bank accounts (don't need them now since I live at home and don't have a job). Is that good or can people still get to me? :scared:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Well. It's certainly going to ruin our business...

What's the point of shredding all your personal stuff if ChoicePoint is just going to sell all of your info wrapped up in a nice little package to some crook?

. No need to go thru peoples trash anymore! Think of the time the identity thieves will save!

Can I sue them for that even if I don't get one of those "we regret to inform you that your personal info has been sold to some guy, we don't really know who and you are now f*cked" letters? 100.000 and some Amerikans will get one. Big Brother. Jeez.

<please fasten your seatbelts, bit of turbulence ahead>

[linazelle]

6. Whether they can be sued is a good question...

I want to know who gave them permission to get MY data in the first place. I'm sure that BushCo will protect poor ChoicePoint in the courts so that the wretched consumers won't bother them. Poor ChoicePoint.

[thecrow]

7. What is their address? I think we all should write them

and demand to know how they got our information, who authorized this, and exactly what information they had which was hacked.
In the interest of protecting our names, credit ratings, bank accounts, medical histories, etc.

I want answers and I want them now.
A class action suit might be a good idea, too. Even if it was thrown out of court the repercussions might be amazing.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

8. Wesley Clark was lobbying for Acxiom to DARPA's Poindexter and Cheney.

Acxiom is like Choicepoint. It lost the info on 20 million Americans to a subcontractor who took it home on 30 CDs and distributed it to other criminals.

Acxiom also gave up the Jetblue customer records to another contractor putting together a 'security' database for the Pentagon.

Clarkies just can't accept that he is a shining example of the Military Industrial Complex mixed with Big Brother despite his dissing the neocons.

[Philosophy]

9. The hackers didn't steal it

Choicepoint willingly sold it to them just like they will to anyone for the right price.

[cosmicdot]

10. well, I wrote my Senator and a few House members today ...

calling for an end to this invasion of our privacy ...

they steal our identities every day, and then it's stolen from them ... ? ... is this a bad dream or what?

how does this make us safer or more secure? we're more vulnerable imo

Another clearinghouse spy is Poppy's
The Carlyle Group's
http://www.usis.com

enough is enough