[Dataloss] follow-up: Reed Elsevier Seeks to Acquire ChoicePoint for $4.1B

[security curmudgeon]

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From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawg at netzero.net>

Via The Washington Post.

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Reed Elsevier PLC, the owner of the LexisNexis Group, is seeking to 
acquire ChoicePoint Inc. in a $4.1 billion cash deal that would create a 
global data brokering service.

By combining database giants LexisNexis and ChoicePoint, Reed Elsevier 
would handle information about hundreds of millions of people and 
sophisticated software to handle it. Both companies play key roles in law 
enforcement, homeland security and intelligence, as well as providing 
information to the private sector.

Both also have been hit by identity theft and security problems.

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More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022100809.html