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Title    US Secret Service Violated Privacy Policy to Embarrass Congressman
Date    Saturday October 03 2015, @03:35PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the someone-is-going-to-have-a-very-bad-day dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/02/1422231

tt0103855 wrote in to tell us:

The Secret Service thought we all needed a reminder that databases of personal information will be exploited for political gain. The chair of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, was leading the investigation into one of the recent cases of Secret Service misconduct. Agents within the service accessed records concerning Chaffetz' application to the Secret Service (which was not acted upon) and then disseminated that information within the agency and talked to the press about it.

The full Inspector General's report (pdf) is available.

Will Chaffetz learn from his experience and strengthen privacy laws for regular citizens?

Original Submission

Links
  1. "reminder that databases of personal information will be exploited for political gain." - https://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/9432507/secret-service-chaffetz-scandal
  2. "report (pdf)" - https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mga/OIG_mga-092515.pdf
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=9819
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