At what point will people learn from their mistakes?
The Federal Trade Commission, responsible for protecting Americans from fraud and identity theft, reported on Thursday the theft of two of its own computers with personal information about 110 people.
The incident was the latest in a series of recent thefts and data breaches involving government computers.
The laptops were password protected but they were not encrypted. As I have written about earlier a password control is rather trivial to bypass.
The FTC is developing a new laptop computer security policy that would require an employee to remove any personal identifying information in the machine before it leaves an agency office. If the personal data was needed for an investigation, an FTC manager would have to approve allowing the laptop to leave the building, Broder said.
These are the people that are supposed to protect the people against fraud. These people should lead by example and this is a bad example.
[tags]FTC, Laptops Stolen, Identity Theft, Privacy[/tags]