Data Brokers : Background and Industry Overview.

Provides background information on data brokers, companies that collect and sell personal information from public and private records, focusing on recent consumer information security breaches at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2007.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Computers. Information services. Privacy, Right of. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Description
Summary:	Provides background information on data brokers, companies that collect and sell personal information from public and private records, focusing on recent consumer information security breaches at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.