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Military lags in safeguarding officers' identities
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:49:51 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org> Date: November 1, 2009 6:51:49 PM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Military lags in safeguarding officers' identities Hi Dave - For IP if you wish. Carl Military lags in safeguarding officers’ identities By Charlie Reed, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Monday, November 2, 2009YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan - The military is playing catch-up on a year- old complaint that hundreds of thousands of officers’ Social Security numbers have been floating around on the Internet.
In an October 2008 letter to the Defense Department and the Federal Trade Commission, Public.Resource.org detailed its discovery of roughly 232,000 military officers’ Social Security numbers in government and commercial databases, available to anyone with an Internet connection.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65799 =========================== The original FTC complaint and their response are here: http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/foia/gov.ftc_20081117_from.pdf http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/foia/gov.ftc_20081005_to.pdf ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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