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UPDATES: Dan Gilmor points to David Lazarus’s well written piece on ChoicePoint; Shifting sands in data leak.
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In a couple of days, we’ll head back to Maryland to find out if I received a letter from ChoicePoint as part of the 4,500 Marylanders affected by the latest identity theft scandal.

Cindy Webb has a good column on the legislative end of this scandal and what it all means.

Downloaded and Ready to Rock
iPod Nights Turn Amateurs Into Digital DJs at D.C. Club (free reg req’d)

The iPod Jukebox night, held at Cafe Saint-Ex every second Wednesday of
the month, attracts mostly white-collar types in their twenties and
thirties who heard about it from a friend of a friend, or read about it
in a link to a blog.

It’s perhaps the most public manifestation of how the iPod — with 8.2
million units sold in 2004, more than 5 million during the holiday
season alone — has gone mainstream, spawning an entire iPod culture
that goes far beyond wearing those distinctive white earphones.

With all the talk of transparency and conflicts of interest, Dave Weinberger’s disclosure statement leaves little to the imagination.  When is the last time that you saw a real disclosure statement on a company website?