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[IPTAblog] This study examined the quality of data provided by ChoicePoint and Acxiom, two of the largest consumer data brokers in the United States, as well as their responsiveness to consumer requests – and found significant areas of concern in both areas.

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[Hasbrouck.org] The Practical Nomad blog: DHS Privacy Officer releases report on ...: The real bombshell in the report is the revelation that Acxiom Corp., a "data aggregator serving as a contractor for jetBlue", already had received all the jetBlue reservation data before it turned it over to military contractor Torch Concepts at the request of the

[Blogs.ascential.com] Data Integration : Andrew Manby : Archive: For example, the CDO would work with the VP of Marketing and Finance to better leverage internal and external data more effectively and efficiently for competitive advantage - a higher customer touch. In this new world, the CIO’s chartered is still to bring online new applications to serve the business, but it’s the job of the CDO to ensure a successful implementation from a corporate data perspective as part of a grander corporate data footprint. Their charter would extend to ensuring the business is always fluid, and in the event of an M & A situation, the business can be responsive to the need to repurpose or reconcile its data quickly.

[Redmonk.com] tecosystems: The Dark Side to Open Metadata Network Applications?: That fact is not likely to change my behavior anytime soon, as I enjoy the benefits of social-applications too much to easily give them up, but the inevitable talk of service integration will be setting off silent alarms for me. I don't mind if all of you know these things about me, but I do mind if Acxiom does. And if the worst does come to pass, well, I want to be able to say I told you so.

[Chapellassociates.com] Chapell Blog: Federal election commissioners are preparing to consider how revamped campaign finance laws apply to political activity on the Internet, including online advertising, fund-raising e-mail messages and Web logs. Anyone who decides to "set up a blog, send out mass e-mails, any kind of activity that can be done on the Internet" could be subject to Federal Election Commission regulation, Bradley A. Smith, a Republican commissioner, said in an interview posted Thursday on the technology news site Cnet.com.

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