Sunday, August 13, 2006

Vets whose info was lost get identity theft protection

As reported here, "Millions of veterans and active-duty troops whose sensitive personal information was lost by the Veterans Affairs Department will receive some form of credit protection against identity theft, the government said Wednesday."

That's nice. What would be even better is if various other government agencies, and government contractors, would get their act together as far as protecting computer assets that have sensitive data on them. The Transportation Department, and Unisys also either "lost", or had stolen, computers with personal information on them; they too, are offering free credit monitoring to those vets who may be affected.

In this day and age, with ID theft rampant throughout the world, you would think that someone would have the smarts to look at current security policies and procedures, compare those to other agencies and businesses, and tighten things up where they are found to be lax.

Oh, wait - we're talking about the government (and government contractors) here, aren't we? Silly me.

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