[privacy] Census Bureau Admits Privacy Breach

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Seattle P-I (props, Dataloss mailing list).

[snip]

The Census Bureau inadvertently posted personal information from 302
households on a public Internet site multiple times over a five-month
period, the bureau said Wednesday.

The information included names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and
family income ranges, said Ruth Cymber, the agency's director of
communications. No Social Security numbers were posted, and there is no
evidence that the data was misused, Cymber said.

But, she added, posting the information violated bureau policies and
federal law.

The bureau is in the process of contacting the households, located in nine
states and the District of Columbia, to offer free credit-monitoring
services.

[snip]

More:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1155AP_Census_Data_Mix_up.html

- - ferg

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