ChoicePoint. WTF? And we thought Diebold was the evil!

[KyndCulture]

http://www.choicepoint.com/


Greg Palast's last 2 columns got me googling this company.


I seriously think I'm gonna be sick.

[Dudley_DUright]

1. We in FL know all about the evil that is ChoicePoint

from the 2000 selection.

[GregD]

5. Correction -

Here's a tidbit to consider -

I don't know a lot about what Choicepoint is doing these days in terms of gathering data on us, but the company that actually created the purge list was NOT Choicepoint. It was Database Technologies. Choicepoint acquired DBT after that time and according to the wife of the president of Choicepoint, did not do their due-diligence before purchasing that company and didn't know about the purge list until later.

Doug Curling and his wife Donna are strong Democrats and generous donors to Democrats and democratic causes:
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?txtName=curling%2C+donna&NumOfThou=0&txt2006=Y&submit=Go%21

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?txtName=curling%2C+doug&NumOfThou=0&txt2006=Y&submit=Go%21

I happen to know that the Curlings have provided significant funding to the groups who oppose electronic voting.

I really wish freaking Palast would get his damn facts straight and stop painting Choicepoint with a broad brush, and name DBT as a company that existed independent of Choicepoint at the time they created that list.

[KyndCulture]

6. I appreciate your info.. but.

ChoicePoint is being named as the company that is gathering our phone call records right now...

That doesn't have anything to do with the 2000 election.


That's today and they are doing it... so now what?

[GregD]

7. fair enough -

and I'm not trying to argue about what they might be doing today, but they had nothing to do with Florida, and that's a distinction that should be made.

[Fredda Weinberg]

8. Amen

I happen to have copies of the correspondence among the Florida elections officials while the scrub list was prepared - there was loads of incompetence, but no one expressed nefarious intent. The public circus that erupted later was the usual cover-up, which was mistaken for evidence of a crime.

I cringe when I see a new Palast column, but over the years I've come to see that many DU heros have feet of clay.

[wtmusic]

2. More reasons to NEVER give up personal information

unless absolutely necessary (then make something up) :)

[acmejack]

3. One wonders why companies such as this are permitted to exist!

Selling people's DNA data?

[KyndCulture]

4. It's a bit too much for a Saturday morning...

My friends and I talked about this company at the pub last night... I woke up with a mission to google this... and I am so seriously sick after reading about this.

[Fredda Weinberg]

9. Welcome to the 21st century

We have the technology, why are you surprised that it's being used?

The only part about the NSA activity that bothers me is the avoidance of judicial review - the implementation of the data mining scheme could have been done without jeopardizing the privacy of innocent people ... Choicepoint has a poor record of protecting personal data and additional oversight is needed to isolate information collected for national security purposes from their commercial records.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. it was Choice Point that purged florida voter roll for Jeb & Harris ?

[blm]

11. And a Choicepoint VP died in a plane crash shortly after Florida actions

came to light.