[Dataloss] Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract

[security curmudgeon]

: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110248,00.html
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: Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract
: Leahy wants to know why DOJ's still doing business with breached firm
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: News Story by Grant Gross
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: APRIL 05, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A top Democrat in the U.S. Senate 
: questioned Wednesday why the U.S. Department of Justice continues to do 
: business with data broker ChoicePoint Inc. a year after the company 
: announced a data breach potentially affecting 145,000 U.S. residents.
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: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) blasted the DOJ and the FBI division for a 
: recent five-year, $12 million contract for ChoicePoint to provide 
: investigative analysis software to the FBI. In February 2005, 
: ChoicePoint announced a data breach after criminals set up fake 
: businesses that purchased private information from the data broker.
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: "What in heaven's name are we doing allowing someone as careless as 
: ChoicePoint to be in control of our data?" Leahy said at a subcommittee 
: hearing on the DOJ's 2007 budget. "I consider them the poster child for 
: lax security protection."

Which brings up the point, when do you trust these companies again? Does a 
significant dataloss incident destroy all trust? Is it a permanant black 
eye that they are likely never to recover from?

Seems like such an incident would take a lot to recover from. So, for the 
list subscribers, what would it take for you to resume business with a 
company that lost your data?