Is a year’s worth of credit monitoring enough for victims of identity theft?
That question was debated during a contentious exchange between Derek V. Smith, CEO of ChoicePoint Inc., and Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) during a House hearing on data security.
ChoicePoint is under scrutiny for two instances of selling consumer information to clients who turned out to be scam artists.
Markey set the tone during his opening remarks, saying that personal data is