[privacy] Reed Elsevier Seeks to Acquire ChoicePoint for $4.1B

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via The Washington Post.

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Reed Elsevier PLC, the owner of the LexisNexis Group, is seeking to acquire
ChoicePoint Inc. in a $4.1 billion cash deal that would create a global
data brokering service.

By combining database giants LexisNexis and ChoicePoint, Reed Elsevier
would handle information about hundreds of millions of people and
sophisticated software to handle it. Both companies play key roles in law
enforcement, homeland security and intelligence, as well as providing
information to the private sector.

Both also have been hit by identity theft and security problems.

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More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR200802210
0809.html

- - ferg

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