Collier County admits they may have thousands of pages of your personal information online for anyone to see. More than 9 million documents are filed at the Collier Clerk of Courts Office and WINK News discovered software may be to blame for thousands of those documents not having your personal information blacked out. Read more…
Category: Government Sector
Private paperwork found in Yankee parade confetti
Julia reports: The half ton of recycled confetti provided to buildings lining the Canyon of Heroes in downtown Manhattan for the Yankees’ victory parade yesterday turned out not to be enough for some people to show their enthusiasm. Medical records, financial statements, pay stubs, law firm invoices and court records were found in the fifty…
NARA admits violating internal policy on personal info
Ben Bain reports: The National Archives and Records Administration violated its information security policies by returning failed hard drives from systems containing personally identifiable information of current government employees and military veterans back to vendors. By agency policy, NARA is supposed to destroy the hard drives rather than return them, according to a top NARA…
Government accused of ‘cover up’ over lost farmer tapes
The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been accused of a “cover up” after two back-up tapes went missing containing the banking details of around 100,000 farmers. The tapes are said to have gone missing this spring, with Defra officials having been informed in July. The tapes were lost by contractor IBM,…
UK: Home Office – sensitive document blunders
5.4m of us apply for a passport every year and we relay on the Passport Office Service, a part of the Home Office to issue them. They say their mission is safeguarding your identity but Watchdog has received complaints from viewers who say that the Passport Office Service have made basic errors meaning that their…
Archives officials grilled on the Hill over missing data drives
Max Cacas reports: So, why can’t the National Archives hang on to its computer hard drives? That’s the question that the House Information Policy, Census and National Archives wants answered. Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Missouri), is chairman of the panel, a part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The theft or loss of…