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[privacy] U.S. GAO Removes Archived Personal Data from Website
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:26:19 GMT
Via GCN.com. [snip] The Government Accountability Office has pulled from its Web site personal information on certain government employees after discovering that the archived data had been inadvertently posted online. In a recent notice, GAO said the data came from audit reports on Defense Department travel vouchers from the 1970s and included some service membersÂ’ names, Social Security numbers and addresses. GAO estimates that fewer than 1,000 people were impacted. David Walker, head of the GAO and comptroller of the U.S., ordered the agency to remove the data and directed officials to contact the Pentagon and other affected organizations and urge them to purge similar files. [snip] More here: http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/41171-1.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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