Federal Trade Commission: Databroker ChoicePoint to Pay $15M for Leaking Consumer Data
The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it had reached a $15 million settlement with ChoicePoint Inc., the commercial data broker that disclosed last February that thieves had duped the company into turning over private data on more than 145,000 people. That revelation touched off a year of national debate over data privacy and security and generated a raft of tough new state laws on data security as well as several bills in Congress.
U.S. Settles With Company on Leak of Consumers' Data, New York Times, January 27, 2006.
