IRS Orders Security Review of Choicepoint Contract

[Alpharetta]

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/industries/12007444.htm
Would have posted this in Late-breaking, but it actually happened yesterday.

IRS orders security review of ChoicePoint contract

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday it has ordered a full security review of a $20 million contract awarded to ChoicePoint Inc., a data broker under fire for a security breach that let criminals gain access to its database of personal information.

IRS Commissioner Mark Everson ordered the security review of the five-year contract to make sure it will not endanger taxpayer confidentiality, the agency said in a statement. The IRS said it had no security problems during a previous five-year contract with the company.

The arrangement allows IRS auditors and criminal investigators to use ChoicePoint's databases to locate assets owned by delinquent taxpayers. It's part of an IRS effort to close a more than $300 billion gap between taxes owed and taxes paid.

More (including quotes from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt and Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass.)at
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/industries/12007444.htm

[napi21]

1. Yet another example of "If you fail, you get an award" .

Choice Point was one of the first companies to have a security problem with private information, so why wouldn't they get this BIG contract??? Pretty much the same as giving those medals to the failed CIA guy and the guy who was in charge of the Iraq interim Gov't.

[LightningFlash]

2. Hey, at least the IRS & Feds finally woke up.....

These freaking conjob artists are responsible for the major vote fraud type purging done in 2000, and then 2004. If they can be prosecuted, just maybe, all citizens can have a right to vote....Or a step in that direction.