Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
And so the series continues. The Washington Post reports that the Department of Justice has just released “a scathing report” finding that over a 5-year period the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “lost dozens of weapons and hundreds of laptops that contained sensitive information.” The DOJ’s Inspector General Glenn A. Fine found [...]
As I noted in previous installments of this series, our government seems to have an increasingly hard time keeping tabs on sensitive data. Unfortunately, there’s been another incident on this front. The Washington Post reported this morning that: “A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of [...]
Previous installments (1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) in this series have documented how our government seems to have a difficult time keeping tabs on laptops and personal information. The latest on this front comes from the Energy Department which notified Congress yesterday that it has lost 1,415 laptop PCs over the past six years. [...]
Previous installments (1, 2, 3 & 4) in this series have documented how our government seems to have a difficult time keeping tabs on laptops and personal information. The latest on this front comes from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Last week, the TSA informed us that a computer hard drive containing the personal, payroll [...]
Steve Jobs wants to sell you back copies of your own home movies for a $1.99 apiece! Or so declares this humorous Onion parody, (which almost sounds like it might have been secretly penned by our own Tim Lee!) And while you’re over at The Onion site, you might also want to check out this [...]
As I noted in previous installments of this series, our government seems to have a problem keeping tabs on its laptop computers, especially the ones with sensitive information on them. I know private sector companies lose plenty of laptops too. And sometimes those laptops also contain sensitive information. But there are at least two important [...]
In recent blogs, I’ve been documented the troubling reports of government losing laptops and compromising private information. And as I mentioned in another report, Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), the Chairman of the committee, has introduced H.R. 6163, the “Federal Agency Data Breach Protection Act” to try to get this problem under control, although the legislation [...]
Quick update… Last week I discussed our government’s ongoing lost laptop follies after the House Committee on Government Reform reported that more than 1,100 laptop computers had vanished from the Department of Commerce since 2001, including nearly 250 from the Census Bureau containing such personal information as names, incomes and Social Security numbers. And the [...]
Honestly, I don’t get it. How in the world does government lose so many laptop computers? I don’t know if you heard this yesterday but Sonoma County, CA authorities reported that they had lost one-time JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr’s laptop, which supposedly contains evidence of child pornography that could have been used [...]
February 14, 2012
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