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Union Sues TSA Over Personal Data Loss

An AP newswire article by Michael J. Sniffen, via The Washington Post, reports that:

Airport security screeners filed suit Tuesday to expand the Transportation Security Administration's response to its loss of Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employees.

If the data, which was contained on a lost computer hard drive, "were to fall into the wrong hands, false identity badges easily could be created in order to gain access to secure areas," said John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees.

"A Department of Homeland Security agency that cannot even shield its own employee data is not reassuring."

posted by Fergie @ 5/08/2007 07:54:00 PM