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Re: [privacy] Personal Data on U.S. Border Soldiers Stolen


From: Shyaam <shyaam () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:23:11 -0500

This is insane. Cant there be someone who is careful. The Border security
info can be used against them to leave in immigrants who are not supposed to
enter this. Privacy usually ensures that the peoples identity are covered so
that their personal family and other life is not known to people who are not
allowed to take advantage of it.

At this rate, entire critical infrastructure information is going to be lost
despite providing security


Shyaam

On 3/9/07, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:

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Via The Tuscaloosa News (props, attrition.org).

[snip]

A computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers and other
personal
information on nearly 1,300 California National Guard troops deployed to
the U.S.-Mexico border has apparently been stolen.

The hard drive was reported missing Feb. 23 from the Guard's border
mission
headquarters inside San Diego Naval Base, said California National Guard
spokesman Lt. Col. Jon Siepmann. It contains home addresses, birth dates
and other identifying information for all soldiers serving long-term
assignments on the border.

The Guard notified the soldiers Feb. 28 that their information had been
compromised. It advised them to begin checking credit statements and take
other protective measures.

The Guard has turned the investigation over to the Navy's Criminal
Investigative Division, Siepmann said.

[snip]

More:
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070309/APA/703092833

- - ferg


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Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
Shyaam Sundhar R.S., GREM, GHTQ, GWAS
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