ChoicePoint Will Now Inform You When They Tell People You're A Crook
from the how-nice-of-them dept
Despite claims from ChoicePoint over the past month that they were in compliance with all the various data security and disclosure laws... it turns out they weren't. A subsidiary they bought last year that does criminal background checks wasn't complying with a law that said the subjects of such background checks need to be informed whenever others are told about any criminal records. ChoicePoint has happily announced they're now compliant -- ignoring nearly a year in which it appears they were regularly breaking the law. Of course, they're taking the easiest way out, and only telling people after they've told others that you're a crook -- which certainly could put plenty of people in an awkward position if they're not a crook. Given the fact that many ChoicePoint reports are filled with errors (and they're not particularly willing to let you take a look and/or make corrections) -- including errors about criminal records -- this seems a bit problematic, and not much of a sign that ChoicePoint has turned over a new leaf in protecting anyone's (real or mistakenly criminal) privacy.
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What about herd crimes?
1,600 middle school kids went on a field trip, and about 400 of them looted a convenience store next to the museum. The school claims that only 50 of them did so -- uh huh.
http://japanese.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2005/04/20/20050420000064.html
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Re: What about herd crimes?
But who knows, maybe the schoolteachers were emptying the cash registers while the kids were stealing candy?
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