D’oh! Those Zany Government Bureaucrats and Data Security
FROM THE THIS-IS-JUST-TOO-rich-to-pass-up file: The Federal Trade Commission noted recently that two of its laptops, containing the personal information of about 110 people, had been stolen.
Some FTC lawyers reportedly were using the computers to prepare a case when the machines were taken from a locked car.
Yep, this is the same FTC that’s responsible for making sure marketers don’t get sloppy with their customers’ personal information.
The incident followed a well-publicized Veterans Affairs snafu in which one of its employees had a laptop lifted from his home. That machine held information on as many as 26.5 million veterans.
The federal government considers data security serious business. According to DMA president John Greco, six House and Senate committees are working on some sort of data security legislation. How much you want to bet that none of them are called the
