The company also had a division selling specialist credit information to the insurance industry but spun off this service, including the Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange ( CLUE ) database as ChoicePoint in 1997.

Factiva has also partnered with EuroSpider, Comintell, Peoplesoft, MediaMap, Biz360, ChoicePoint, BTRadianz, AtHoc, and Reuters.

* ChoicePoint, whose New York Stock Exchange symbol was CPS until its buyout by Reed Elsevier

Further, until pressured by investigations ( see below ), ChoicePoint restricted its search of compromised records to the 15 months that the California law had been in force, leading it to identify 145, 000 records against the eventual total of 163, 000.

A partial list of companies classified as nationwide specialty consumer reporting agencies under FCRA includes: ChoicePoint, Acxiom, Integrated Screening Partners, Innovis, the Insurance Services Office ( ISO ), Tenant Data Services, LexisNexis, Retail Equation, Central Credit, Teletrack, the Medical Information Bureau ( MIB aka, MIB Group, Inc .), UnitedHealth Group ( Ingenix Division ), and Milliman.

In February 2005, after the ChoicePoint identity theft incidents became public, U. S. Senator Charles Schumer ( D-NY ) publicized the fact that Westlaw has a database containing a large amount of private information on practically all living Americans.

While database companies like LexisNexis, Westlaw, ChoicePoint, and eFunds ( owner of ChexSystems ) do not create credit reports per se, they may gather the same types of information and as a result may subject some of their actions to FCRA, e. g. when they provide such information to insurance companies, banks and other entities which may deny services, or favorable rates for services, based on that information.

ChoicePoint, in contrast, used virtually no Social Security numbers, did not check address histories, and used no database cross-checking, although it had 1, 200 databases that could be employed for the task.

ChoicePoint was used to perform consumer and criminal background checks on prospective employees of the Obama administration.

Thieves used previously stolen identities to create apparently legitimate businesses seeking ChoicePoint accounts.

EPIC had filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission in December 2004 urging the agency to investigate the compilation and sale of personal dossiers by data brokers such as ChoicePoint.

The scam came to light when 41-year-old Nigerian citizen, Olatunji Oluwatosin, was detected attempting to gain access to personal data held by ChoicePoint.

Media investigations generated by the incident brought to light that ChoicePoint had suffered a previous similar ID theft in 2002.

In January 2006 ChoicePoint was fined US $ 15 million by the Federal Trade Commission: US $ 10 million in civil penalties and US $ 5 million to compensate victims of the security breach.

Derek V. Smith was the CEO of ChoicePoint from 1997 until its acquisition by Reed Elsevier.

In late 2003, he was one of a group of prominent U. S. security officials hired by ChoicePoint to advise the company on developing its government homeland security contracts.

DBT Online was later acquired by ChoicePoint, of Atlanta, in early 2000.

Several lawsuits and consumer complaints have accused ChoicePoint of providing inaccurate and out-of-date information in its criminal background reports, resulting in unfair job losses for applicants.

ChoicePoint discovered on September 27, 2004, that some of its small-business customers in Los Angeles were engaged in suspicious activity.

The parties reached a settlement wherein ChoicePoint will donate $ 75, 000 to the NAACP and will reprocess the voter file on the plaintiffs ' terms.

Notably, he has claimed to have uncovered evidence that Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Florida Elections Unit Chief Clay Roberts, along with the ChoicePoint corporation, rigged the ballots during the US Presidential Election of 2000 and again in 2004 when, he argued, the problems and machinations from 2000 continued, and that challenger John Kerry actually would have won if not for disproportional " spoilage " of Democratic votes.

ChoicePoint ( previous NYSE ticker symbol CPS ) was a data aggregation company based in Alpharetta, near Atlanta, Georgia, United States, that acted as a private intelligence service to government and industry.

ChoicePoint combined personal data sourced from multiple public and private databases for sale to the government and the private sector.

ChoicePoint generated revenue of around US $ 1 billion in 2006, and employed around 5, 500 people at nearly 60 locations in the US and UK.

ChoicePoint has suffered several security breaches which have led to the theft of the personal information it holds.

The incident cost ChoicePoint millions of dollars.

In addition, ChoicePoint was required to take steps to better secure personal information.

ChoicePoint subsidiary, National Credit Audit Corporation of Peoria, Illinois has been accused of attempting to force magazine subscribers to pay for merchandise which they have not ordered.

* Break-in costs ChoicePoint millions, News. com, 7 / 20 / 2005

* ChoicePoint files found riddled with errors, msnbc. com, 3 / 8 / 2005

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BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

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From 2004 until 2008, HBC also owned and operated a small chain of off-price stores called Designer Depot.

Germans controlled about 80 % of the country's international commerce ; they also owned and operated utilities in Cap Haïtien and Port-au-Prince, the main wharf and a tramway in the capital, and a railroad serving the Plaine de Cul-du-Sac.

It has also operated a welfare insurance scheme.

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