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ChoicePoint -- What We Learned from Our Screw-up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ahem-ahem-ahem dept.

xpangler points out an article in Baseline magazine in which "ChoicePoint's lead privacy & compliance executives talks about the 'more than 30' new practices and procedures the company has put in place since it mistakenly sold private data on 163,000 people to Nigerian criminals last year."

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  1. Lesson 1 by OakDragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never trust anyone who says things like "Greetings!" and "Honorable", and who CAPITALIZES in very ODD places.

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    1. Re:Lesson 1 by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Funny

      Never trust anyone who says things like "Greetings!" and "Honorable", and who CAPITALIZES in very ODD places.

      Okay, I certainly won't trust you anymore then...

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    2. Re:Lesson 1 by soren42 · · Score: 3, Funny
      Never trust anyone who says things like "Greetings!" and "Honorable", and who CAPITALIZES in very ODD places.

      Wait, wait, wait - we're not supposed to trust Japanese-Americans?
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    3. Re:Lesson 1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      See, you can find out more about this novel concept here....

      A wikipedophilia-link does not make your statement funny. We mod you "troll" because there is no "unfunny asshole"-option.

  2. Re:Mental translation by Billosaur · · Score: 2, Funny

    [1] Speaking of stupid CxO titles, what the hell is a "Chief Administrative Officer"?

    a) Chief Administrative Officer - in charge of paper clip chains and bottom photos from the copiers

    b) Chief Administrative Officer - new member of the Enterprise bridge crew:
    Picard: ...and this Commander Throckmorton, our Chief Administrative Officer.

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