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Company: ChoicePoint, Inc.
Current Parent Company: RELX Group
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Penalty: $15,000,000
Year: 2006
Date: January 26, 2006
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: Consumer data broker ChoicePoint, Inc., which in 2005 acknowledged that the personal financial records of more than 163,000 consumers in its database had been compromised, agreed to pay $10 million in civil penalties and $5 million in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its security and record-handling procedures violated consumers' privacy rights and federal laws.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: media
Specific Industry of Current Parent: publishing
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