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[kalibex]

IN ADDITION TO SELLING YOUR information to insurance companies, prospective employers and, uh, identity thieves, the true business of ChoicePoint is circumventing the Federal Privacy Act of 1974. That law banned the government from becoming Big Brother and compiling digital dossiers on citizens. But when the law was written, people assumed only the government would have the computer wherewithal to amass databases. The law didn't ban -- the authors couldn't envision -- private companies from collecting data on virtually each and every American citizen, and then selling it to the government. ChoicePoint does business with at least 30 federal agencies.

Worried? You should be.