The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that data warehouser ChoicePoint Inc. will pay $15 million to settle charges that its security and record-handling procedures violated consumers' privacy ...

The embattled data broker ChoicePoint Inc. said Friday it no longer will sell sensitive consumer information to small businesses, and the company's chief executive said he did not learn of a major ...

Scammers penetrated ChoicePoint Inc.’s vast online database of personal records five years ago in an operation similar to a more recent case that has triggered a national furor over privacy, court ...

ATLANTA – ChoicePoint Inc., a 1997 spinoff of credit agency Equifax, is being acquired by the parent of LexisNexis in a $3.6 billion cash deal that offers a major premium for a company that weathered ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — ChoicePoint Inc. was created to avoid just the sort of mess in which it now finds itself. The nation’s biggest private collector of personal information was spun off seven years ago ...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer leaned forward in his chair at the Senate Banking Committee's March 10 hearing and interrupted Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras - again. "Was ...

Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay a fine for a second breach in 2008, the ...

As data broker ChoicePoint wrestles with the fallout from the sale of personal data to identity thieves and an investigation into two executives' sale of company stock, it faces questions on another ...

In August the police in Corona, Calif., got a surprising phone call. The caller said an auditor needed to examine the department's facilities and take pictures inside. To the security-conscious police ...

Two major data brokers, a California elementary school and Google's Gmail service are leading contenders for the Big Brother Awards -- a dubious prize spotlighting organizations with egregious privacy ...

As ChoicePoint Inc. continues this week to notify some 145,000 consumers of possible identity theft after it sold consumer information to fraudulent businesses last year, the company said it’s ...