Although ChoicePoint says it has records on nearly every American with a credit card, it doesnt always provide access to that data. The companys Autotrack service is popular with many agencies and businesses and is also used by reporters at The Wall Street 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. http://www.msnbc.com/news/558876.asp
Although ChoicePoint says it has records on nearly every American with a credit card, it doesnt always provide access to that data. The companys Autotrack service is popular with many agencies and businesses and is also used by reporters at The Wall Street 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 wonder if they would be willing to block my records as an act of good corporate citizenship.
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. Freeh�s 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?
I wonder if they would be willing to block my records as an act of good corporate citizenship.
It couldn't hurt to ask. In fact, you might get lucky and run into some legislation that requires them to do so if directly asked. Bear
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
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