Thursday, October 15, 2009



How US paid for secret files on foreign citizens

Latin Americans furious in row over selling personal data
Oliver Burkeman in Washington and Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
The Guardian, Monday 5 May 2003 01.15 BST

Governments across Latin America have launched investigations after revelations that a US company is obtaining extensive personal data about millions of citizens in the region and selling it to the Bush administration.

Documents seen by the Guardian show that the company, ChoicePoint, received at least $11m (£6.86m) last year in return for its data, which includes Mexico's entire list of voters, including dates of birth and passport numbers, as well as Colombia's citizen identification database.

... criminal charlatans, scumbag thieves and most of all ...
... treasonous betrayers ...
... there are reasons to believe they have done the same in Europe ...


# posted by intcoex : 12:53 PM




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