The company that would sell your soul to the devil (Choicepoint FL Purge)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05056/462725.stm

Why am I not surprised that ChoicePoint, the consumer data-mining company that was recently conned into sharing 145,000 consumer credit profiles with identity thieves, is the same company that helped Florida "purge" its voter rolls of felons and other undesirable voters during the 2000 election?

When you're on such an undemocratic roll, why stop at helping to hijack an election in plain sight when you can earn millions selling the identities of every person gullible enough to have a credit history to shadowy front companies, organized crime syndicates and enterprising con artists?

And when not selling our hard-earned identities to felonious data brokers, why shouldn't ChoicePoint do the patriotic thing and sell the information -- much of which the government is restricted by law from harvesting for itself -- to the boys in Homeland Security as they go about assembling the ultimate domestic surveillance state?

What could be more American than invading the privacy of millions of people for fun and profit while continuing to evade government oversight with bribes in the form of generous campaign contributions? But it's not like the American Civil Liberties Union didn't warn us of this inevitable convergence of identity theft and ham-fisted Big Brother tactics at least a million times.

[rkc3]

1. Tony Norman - the right mix of sarcasm and facts to hit the mark.

He's a good reason to read the Post-Gazette.

[RamboLiberal]

2. I agree - I just dropped him an email to say what a great column

this is. And to tell him he should be nationally syndicated.

[MeDeMax]

3. holy toledo...

what on earth are the odds of that coming from a single company.

1st - disenfranchise voters then ruin the lives of citizens by aiding identity theft.

[EVDebs]

4. Would love to know if Army's Sigint at Ft Gordon Augusta is in tight

with ChoicePoint as was CNN (see 'CNN and PsyOps' by Alexander Cockburn of counterpunch.com ) in Atlanta was/is.

BTW, CAPPS II is now offshored to the Bahamas with Ben Bell's company and Total Information Awareness lives on from there ! Don't you feel safer now ? And all those mortgage loan files that are offshored now are virtual 'holy grails' of personal financial data...in other countries.

SAIC was hacked recently. David Kay (the WMD guy) has had his information exposed...and he's one of our intell guys, who aren't any safer than Joe Sixpack apparently.

[blue neen]

5. Sorry Rambo Liberal.

I just posted this same topic. I thought I had scanned the other threads pretty well, but somehow I missed yours. I didn't mean to Bogart your topic.

Tony Norman rules! I look forward to his columns every week. I also have been giving him plenty of positive feedback.

[RamboLiberal]

6. No biggie - cause I Bogarted a few today myself

Great minds on DU think alike :evilgrin: