ChoicePoint's CISO, Richard Baich, is interviewed by SecuritySearch.com, where he makes his case that the ChoicePoint fiasco is not a security or hacking issue:This is not an information security issue. My biggest concern is the impact this has on the…
Tag: Data Aggregation
Credit Reporting Agencies Blocking Referrals to Free Credit Report Website
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the three credit reporting agencies are blocking referral links to the Annual Credit Report website they created to conform to the new federal law giving consumers the right to an annual free credit report:Although…
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Summary of incidents cataloged at The Privacy Law Blog
David Fraser at The Privacy Law Blog has an excellent post today cataloging incidents over the past year related to inappropriate release of personal information. The list is frightening both for its length and for the realization that countless incidents…
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Is Momentum Building Against Database Aggregation of Personal Data?
Rob Hyndman reacts to the increasing number of reports of identity thefts and personal data disclosures by speculating whether Americans are now ready to do something about it:There has been an increasing number of media stories lately on this topic,…
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Bruce Schneier on ChoicePoint
Bruce Schneier provides his thoughts on the ChoicePoint fiasco, noting that until companies like ChoicePoint are forced to absorb (financially) the full costs of ID theft, they'll continue to treat our personal information merely as a commodity:Identity theft is the…
ChoicePoint Victims Could Lose Twice
Wired News reports that citizens who fall victim to ID theft becuase of the ChoicePoint debacle will find it difficult to recover damages for their losses if they decide to seek recourse against ChoicePoint:Legal experts say that people who suffered…
The ChoicePoint Data Security Breach: What It Means for You, and How to Find Out What ChoicePoint Knows about You
In the aftermath of the ChoicePoint security breach(here and here), the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has produced a lengthy page on what the incident means to you and what data aggregators like ChoicePoint may have on you:Many consumers who contact the…
Stop Getting Credit Card Offers
The major credit bureaus have the right to sell your personal information to credit card and insurance companies, resulting in the deluge of junk mail. But you have the right to exclude your name from preapproval lists (either permanently or…
Safeway Shopper Card Leads to (false) Arson Arrest
(via A blog doesn't need a clever name)Richard Smith at ComputerBytesMan writes about how a frequent shopping card database led to a false arrest:Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip Scott Lyons found out the hard way that supermarket loyalty cards can come…
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Update on ChoicePoint story & “Hackers”
More news outlets are finally covering this story (CNN, Reuters, ZDNet). Interesting, however, is that the AP story (picked up by the Washington Post, LA Times, and others) label the perpetrators as "hackers" who "penetrated the company's computer network." Nowhere…
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