Census Bureau leaks laptops
You would think the Census Bureau would be good at keeping track of things. But no. The Washington Post reports that in the last five years, the Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptops, many of which went missing from the Census Bureau. Given the agency's work with sensitive data about citizens, the loss is especially alarming: 249 of the missing laptops, mostly from the Census Bureau, had personal information. The Technology Liberation Front blog calls the latest losses "outrageous": "Next time they tell us that we can trust them with personal information and other sensitive things I hope we all remember these incidents," Adam Thierer writes.
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