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Sunday, June 18, 2006

The Inadequate Corporate Security Accountability Inoculation Act of 2006
Posted by Jill | 8:26 AM
So let's see....first you had personal information on 26.5 million American servicepeople stolen because a Department of Defense worker somehow managed to take a database of this size home. Then you had 930,000 AIG customers having THEIR data stolen because allegedly "a burglar" got into their computer room and stole a file server -- a theft not reported for three months. Now the personal data on 13,000 D.C. workers, including their Social Security numbers, has been stolen from a laptop belonging to an ING Financial Services employee that was neither password-protected nor was the data encrypted.

First of all, why are employees like this permitted to offload this amount of data onto flash sticks or their laptops to take home? Haven't these companies heard of Virtual Private Networks?

Second of all, it's clear that the cavalier way in which corporations are treating this data isn't unique, and indeed may be even more widespread than what we've heard.

It's a serious problem, right? So what is our Republican Congress doing? Are they trying to set up laws to require protection of this data? No, they're trying to prevent you from putting a freeze on your credit unless you can prove that you have ALREADY BEEN THE VICTIM OF IDENTITY THEFT.

Getting out from under even suspected identity theft complications is a huge and time-consuming task. To wait until you KNOW that your identity has been stolen opens you up to not just a ruined credit rating, but even possible arrest, if the person who has stolen your identity commits a crime.

Once again, Congressional Republicans are putting the interests of their corporate donors not just first, but first to the exclusion of any kind of demonstration of interest in resolving the problem of corporate data being carried about in an employee's pocket.
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