oneguy - 5:42 pm on Feb 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

No more than I hold my neighbors accountable for their house being broken into and their widescreen TV stolen.

Yeah... but if you are paying your neighbor to hold your sensitive data and they don't take appropriate measures to protect that data, then it's a different issue. Someone is paying that neighbor (Acxiom) to hold the data.

...Unless they collect it on their own and then sell it, but I'm not really sure which is which. Even so... if your enighbor is collecting data on you and then gives it to someone who uses it to harm you, would there be some type of issue in that case?