ChoicePoint, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier (previous NYSE ticker symbol ),'s a data aggregation company based in Alpharetta, near Atlanta, Georgia, United States, that acts as a private intelligence service to government and industry. It was purchased in February 2008 by Reed Elsevier in a cash deal for $3.6 billion USD. ChoicePoint combines personal data sourced from multiple public and private databases for sale to the government and the private sector. The firm maintains more th… (More on Choicepoint)