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"Confidential" court records posted on line
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:47:18 -0600
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=716547 Records released in error Group posts confidential court data from county on its Web site By STEVE SCHULTZE Milwaukee County officials mistakenly released numerous confidential court records for a citizens group's Web site that detail payments for tests and other costs linked to to mental competency, paternity and guardianship cases, officials acknowledged The records obtained by Citizens for Responsible Government Network were part of a county database of 188,000 purchasing invoices for 2006 and 2007. The group put the information on its Web site Tuesday morning. Late Friday, the group agreed to remove the confidential court records at the county's request. However, a check of the group's Web site Sunday night found dozens of entries for psychiatric examinations and guardianship fees in which the clients' names were still listed, sometimes along with the court case number. Most of those listings were for 2006. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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