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Consumers can obtain a free copy of a ChoicePoint report about them if one exists. For more information about ChoicePoint reports, see www. To dispute credit information in a ChoicePoint report, call ChoicePoint can correct information in a credit report only if the error resulted from their system. Choicepoint apologized for selling personal information to criminals, and announced a series of reforms.

The company will still sell its full reports to big businesses and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies Choicepoint estimates that it has , clients, including contracts with 7, law enforcement agencies.

Small businesses will still be able to buy Choicepoint reports, but it appears that Social Security Numbers will be truncated in some fashion. The company also announced that they are working on a system to provide access to all if its information products. Choicepoint also announced that the company could automatically redact SSNs that appear in public records.

Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum gave a preview of a report on commercial data brokers that reveals a very high error rate in personal information reports. ChoicePoint, a data brokerage company, has a contract with INS to provide citizen registry, motor vehicle, and other information for Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Columbia, and Costa Rica. In April , Jim Krane of the Associated Press wrote an article about the sale of this information that ran in newspapers internationally.

Latin American privacy experts claim that the acquisition of the information by ChoicePoint may have been illegal, and that the sale infringes on national sovereignty. Costa Rican, Nicaraguan, and Mexican authorities have decided to investigate the matter, and the Mexican Federal Electoral Institute filed a criminal complaint against persons who have sold voter data to ChoicePoint.

The information was used to scrub voter rolls of ineligible voters—individuals who had committed felonies. Most of the excluded voters were poor or minorities. Levine v. ChoicePoint , No. That law requires that a state obtain express consent from an individual before motor vehicle department records can be sold for direct marketing or other purposes. Levine alleged that ChoicePoint knowingly obtained personal information from the Florida department of motor vehicles for resale to others, in violation of the DPPA.

A similar suit was brought against Lexis-Nexis. Reed Elsevier , No. Levine voluntary dismissed both suits, and the cases were closed in A similar action was filed on May 29, titled Brooks, et al v.

Auto Data Direct, et al , No. The bill would require the Departments of Justice, Defense, Homeland Security, Treasury, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to submit a report to Congress on use of private-sector databases, or lose funding for purchasing personal information from companies such as ChoicePoint and Lexis-Nexis.

This case is still being litigated. It is currently styled Electronic Privacy Information Center v.