At 5:38 PM -0700 4/17/01, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On 17 Apr 2001, Dr. Evil wrote:
Although ChoicePoint says it has records on nearly every American with a credit card,
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Journal. But entering the name of FBI Director Louis Freeh into the Autotrack database produces an error message. A company spokesman says ChoicePoint intentionally blocks Mr. Freehs records as an act of good corporate citizenship.
I think I'd have called that *BAD* citizenship, actually. If it turns out they are wilfully concealing evidence of crimes, don't they wind up charged as accessories?
Scienter...they're not accessories if they are not aware of possible criminal action, least of all if they are blocking access to a _class_ of persons. What law school did you say you're attending? --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns