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US employees snoop on private celebrity information
Atlanta News.Net
Thursday 3rd July, 2008
In the US, an internal State Department report suggests celebrities may have had their privacy breached by employees.
The report claims the employees have been opening files and passport details for the sake of sheer curiosity.
It has urged new steps to secure the files.
Breaches of celebrity records became public in March and prompted the investigation.
The report from the department's inspector general said a survey of the records of 150 notable politicians, athletes and entertainers found that 127 of them, or 85 percent, had been accessed 4,148 times between September 2002 and March 2008.
Of the 150 files, nine had been viewed more than 101 times.
The report noted that the number of viewings on all files appeared to have been excessive and probably a sign of inappropriate peeking at the records, which contain names, Social Security numbers and passport numbers.
Officials have said that any employees found to have violated privacy policies would be disciplined.
Five contract passport workers have already been fired for their role in snooping at the passports of presidential candidates John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Sanity
07-03-08, 09:25 PM |
US employees snoop on private celebrity information
"Five contract passport workers” === aye, there’s the rub.
Privatizing fanaticism is destroying America. Bush spies under cover of terror mongering and hires private companies to handle our most personal info.
We’ll be in “show me your papers” tyranny quite fast. And we HAVE NO STANDING to sue the corporations who SELL OUR DATA because their “corporate secrets” laws protect them by not letting us force out the evidence of their crimes.
Talk about SNOOPS GONE WILD. Wait til you see the fascism inhernent in their hush hush “fusion” centers.
CLEAN HOUSE OF ALL THESE GO ALONG TO GET ALONG WARMONGERS who swore to defend our Constitution — - and fail or refuse to DO THEIR JOB.
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