ChoicePoint, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier (previous NYSE ticker symbol NYSE: CPS), is 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 than 17 billion records of individuals and businesses, which it sells to an estimated 100,000 clients, including 7,000 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies (30 March 2005 estimates).

However, this data has not been secured sufficiently to prevent theft of data on at least one occasion (see below). The company has also been the subject of lawsuits for maintaining inaccurate data, inquiries whether it allowed political bias to influence its performance of government contracts and accused of illegally selling the data of overseas citizens to the US Government. ChoicePoint is used to perform consumer and criminal background checks on prospective employees of the Obama Administration.

For more information regarding the voter file in the context of the 2000 election controversy,