ChoicePoint saga repercussions
Philip Hunter · Computer Fraud & Security · 2005
Fall out from the ChoicePoint debacle in the US continues to reverberate around the IT security world and beyond. The case surfaced in February 2005 when the company revealed it had fallen victim to a major scam allowing identity thieves access to personal data on at least 145,000 consumers and possibly as many as 500,000. This has stoked the smouldering debate over the relative rights of individuals and agencies over control of personal information and over who is responsible for monitoring access to it. It has also called into question the boundary between strict technical IT security and the broader issues of identity fraud.