Gov't Not Doing Enough To Protect Identities

[OhioChick]

Investigation Examined 20 Federal Agencies

POSTED: 2:36 pm EST February 22, 2008
UPDATED: 2:53 pm EST February 22, 2008


WASHINGTON -- Nearly two years after an embarrassing flap in which veterans' personal information was put at risk of identity theft, federal agencies are still not doing all they can to prevent further lapses, investigators have found.

Most of the two dozen federal agencies examined by the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm, had not implemented five federal recommendations aimed at protecting personal information.

Only two agencies -- the Treasury and Transportation departments -- met each of those recommendations. Two others -- the Small Business Administration and the National Science Foundation -- had met none of them, the GAO found.

The other 18 agencies met the recommendations to varying degrees.

The recommendations were among those issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget following the 2006 VA incident, when a computer hard drive containing millions of names, Social Security numbers and birth dates was stolen from a VA employee's home in Maryland.

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1. Which is EXACTLY why I posted this a while ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2915875&mesg_id=2915875