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Bruce Schneier posted today about the accuracy (or lack thereof) of ChoicePoint and Acxiom personal reports. I wasn’t too surprised, having gotten copies of all my credit reports recently after being informed that I was one of ChoicePoint’s lucky mumble thousand. But, what I really found interesting was the last paragraph:

The most shocking error was that two people out of eleven were listed as corporate directors of companies that they had never heard of.

I recently got a solicitation from CIO Magazine informing me that I was a company executive. Makes me wonder what sort of additional bits are in these reports for me that wasn’t covered in the credit reports.

(There are some suggestions in the comments on this entry that maybe people brought this upon themselves by giving bogus information to websites or surveys asking what their position was. For a moment, I thought that maybe I did this to myself, remembering grumbling about OSCON registration at one point, but it seems like at least there I claimed something vaguely accurate.)