Privacy Maven

What’s a Presidential candidate to do, other than issue statements and demand investigations? The State Department said on Friday that it was investigating several incidents in which the passport files of all three presidential contenders were improperly accessed by employees. The breaches involved electronic files that contained personal information about Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham [...]

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The State Dept. called it “imprudent curiosity.” The Obama campaign called it “an outrageous breach of security and privacy.” Caught between adjectival phrases, Secretary of State Rice apologized to Senator Barack Obama. More coverage at Hot Air. As the Washington Post reports, Two State Department employees were fired and a third has been disciplined for [...]

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