[privacy] FTC Hasn't Paid Victims of Breach at ChoicePoint

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Boston Globe (AP).

[snip]

Nearly eight months after regulators trumpeted a settlement with
ChoicePoint Inc. over a data breach, the government has not paid any
money to victims from a $5 million fund that was to be set up as part
of the agreement.

The Federal Trade Commission also has not yet implemented procedures
for how the 800 fraud victims it has identified so far can be
compensated from the fund, nor has it hired anyone to administer it ,
said FTC spokeswoman Claudia Bourne Farrell.

[snip]

More:
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/09/21/ftc_hasnt_paid_victims_of_breach_at_choicepoint/

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

_______________________________________________
privacy mailing list
privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy