Military lags in safeguarding officers' identities

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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, 2009
YOKOTA 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

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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






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