From the article: "Last week's Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus
briefing on data brokers and privacy must have left quite an impression on
Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz, who opened a probe today to
study the privacy practices of the data broker industry.
The agency issued orders to nine data brokerages to
provide information to the FTC about how they collect and use data about
consumers by Feb. 1. Acxiom, Corelogic, Datalogix, eBureau, ID Analytics,
Intelius, Peekyou, Rapleaf and Record Future all received the 15-page
order." Read more
