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Article: Social Insecurity Numbers; Federal agencies need to do a better job of protecting private information.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 7, 2007
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LATE ON FRIDAY, the Transportation Security Administration
announced that an external computer hard drive loaded with sensitive
and private information on 100,000 current and former staffers was
missing, possibly stolen, from a secure area in the human resources
department. This is getting ridiculous. When it comes to
safeguarding private information from the growing identity theft
industry, Uncle Sam's track record is horrendous.
Up until the TSA's major breach, the Census Bureau, the
Agriculture Department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
were the latest agencies to blunder by revealing Social Security
numbers. Tooling around on an Internet site maintained by the Census ...