History of State Actions to Protect Personal Information
States have created many laws to protect personal information. California, for example, has worked hard to make laws that protect the security and privacy of its residents’ data. It was this state’s breach notification laws and a breach at a large corporation that led to the growth of data protection laws in many states.
ChoicePoint Data Breach
ChoicePoint was a data broker that merged public records, credit reports, and demographic data to create individual consumer profiles, which it then sold to the government and private companies. People used the profiles to conduct background checks. ChoicePoint also sold profiles to insurance companies. It collected many different types of personal ...
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