Taylor represented ChoicePoint after it was sued by 44 states in 2005 over consumer-credit privacy issues.

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This latest breach of security on personal information follows similar thefts at ChoicePoint, Time Warner and LexisNexis.

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Unlike ChoicePoint, retail businesses like DSW and Ralph Lauren Polo don't trade in sensitive information like Social Security numbers.

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In the wake of its security breach, ChoicePoint offered one year's worth of free credit monitoring to the consumers affected.

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For example, ChoicePoint was founded in 1997 and has acquired nearly 60 firms to amass databases with 19 billion records on people.

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Choicepoint, a firm that verifies personal information for banks, business and governments, has also had problems, admitting that data on 145, 000 people had been compromised.

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Binkow says ChoicePoint needs to take responsibility for the consumers who don't have those sorts of resources and will likely be confused about how to protect themselves.

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In February, ChoicePoint, a large data-collection agency, began sending out letters warning 145, 000 Americans that it had wrongly provided fraudsters with their personal details, including Social Security numbers.

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Drucker previously founded Steal Card, a software development company focused on creating web-based applications for insurance companies that was purchased by ChoicePoint in 2006 for an undisclosed sum.

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And in February, consumer data company ChoicePoint (nyse: CPS - news - people ) revealed that it had been taken in by a ring of identity thieves who used fake business licenses to buy personal information concerning 145, 000 people.

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