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April 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
It's raining confidential information
Florida County Posts Residents' Sensitive Data On Public Web Site
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,110389,00.html
APRIL 11, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) -
A Florida state statute that requires county officials to post images of certain official documents online has led to the public exposure of sensitive data on potentially millions of current and former residents in Broward County.
The Social Security numbers, driver's license information and bank account details belonging to potentially millions of current and former residents of Florida are available to anyone on the Internet because sensitive information has not been redacted from public records being posted on county Web sites.
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There has to be some commonsense applied here.
Posted by Roger Grimes on April 13, 2006 10:56 AM
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