Commerce Department Lost 1,100 Laptops Since 2001
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Waste & Government Reform
Commerce Department is missing 1,100 laptops
A Commerce Department review found that 249 laptop computers with personal information have been lost or stolen over the last five years, the agency announced Sept. 21.
Commerce said that 888 other laptops that did not contain personal information have also been lost or stolen since 2001.
. . .”Perhaps the most shocking thing here is that the public might not have ever known of these breaches, and their scope, if we hadn’t specifically asked for the information,” Davis said. “Why aren’t these inventories taken automatically, instinctively?”
The only thing government bureaucracy does instinctively is cover its own ass.
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