Fred Cirera

Tennessee is reporting that 337,000 voter names and social security numbers have been stolen. You can read the complete news here

For at least the past year, I have read information like this almost every week. I don’t understand why governments, or corporations employees are still carrying around files full of the public’s personal information. I also don’t understand, why their hard drives are not encrypted. Encryption software is cheap, and very easy to use. It would solve the problem of the lost or stolen laptops.

Losing people personal information by negligence should be considered a criminal offense.

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Update: 12/31/07
Personal Data Theft Reaches Unprecedented Levels in 2007