WHO IS ACXIOM AND WHY DO THEY KNOW EVERY DETAIL OF YOUR LIFE?
Scott E. Howe, the chief executive of Acxiom since last summer, has said he sees the company as a new-millennium “data refinery,” rather than a data miner.
THE UNCLE FESTER OF DATA MINING

An Arkansas company you've probably never heard of knows more about you than your friends and family, Google,or even the FBI  and it's selling your information to anyone who wants it.
Few consumers have ever heard of Acxiom. But analysts say it has amassed the world’s largest commercial data  base on consumers — and that it wants to know much, much more. Its servers process more than 50 trillion data “transactions” a year. It manages 20 billion customer records, has enough storage space to house all the information in the Library of Congress 50 times over, and maintains a database on 96% of U.S. households that gives marketers a so-called real-time, 360-degree view of their victims.   Company executives have said its database contains information about 500 million active consumers worldwide, with about 1,500 data points per person. That includes a majority of adults in the United States. Federal authorities say current laws may not be equipped to handle the rapid expansion of an industry whose players often collect and sell sensitive financial and health information yet are nearly invisible to the public. In essence your most sensitive medical and personal, private information is being mined, refined and sold to the highest bidder, without our knowledge or consent by a company that most people don't even know exists. Although Acxiom employs a so-called privacy officer, Jennifer Barrett Glasgow, she and other executives declined requests to be interviewed for this article. Since 9/11, the company has been campaigning for crucial federal contracts with  Homeland Security.
                            Within 12 hours of posting this article Acxiom came around snooping on this website.  (GOOD JOB  FESTER)
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