but, first ....
Katherine Harris replaced them with the off-shore, former Arthur Andersen company, Accenture, which fwiw set up a joint venture company with Halliburton (Landmark Graphics Corporation) ... was hired to help take care of FL in 2002, 2004 ...
it must be coincidental that Accenture has won high-profile federal contracts (even the British Columbians of Canada wonder: "Does the Accenture deal give the FBI access to our personal files") ... being off-shore, limits visibility into the organization (i.e., by the SEC.gov, and we sleuthing types) ...
"We, the People" are virtually all over the map.
09/06/2004
Accenture wins $10 billion contract to create “virtual” US borders
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-33,GGLD:en&q=accenture+contracts+FBIThe ChoicePoints, Acxioms, and even Poppy Bush's Carlyle Group's USIS
http://www.usis.com/ steal our identities everyday -
imo, that should be made illegal.
"Mexico claims
ChoicePoint stepped across the line"
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What may be surprising is that even before the attacks, the United States was quietly purchasing dossiers on millions of citizens in 10 Latin American countries from an Alpharetta-based firm. The reason: to help verify the identities of Latin American nationals accused of committing crimes in the United States and help in the larger effort to find potential terrorists.
Now, ChoicePoint, the firm that collected the data, finds itself the target of growing criticism abroad and investigations in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Mexico over whether privacy laws were violated. Latin American media have decried the company's actions, including what Mexico claims was the illegal sale of confidential voter registration records of more than 65 million of its citizens.
At the heart of the controversy is the question of what constitutes a confidential record.
Mexican authorities say voter registration rolls there are not public, and only political parties and election officials are permitted access to them. ChoicePoint executives maintain they have not broken any laws because the information gathered is public.
On Friday, Nicaraguan police raided the offices of two businesses suspected of selling information to ChoicePoint, The Associated Press reported. One of the businesses had a database containing federal voting records, AP reported, citing police.
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http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:gw4pasJ2lFoJ:www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0403/27privacy.html+choice+point+and+mexico&hl=en&start=1