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Celebrity Passport Records Popular: State Dept. Audit Finds Snooping Was Frequent

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Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found. One celebrity's records were breached 356 times by more than six dozen people.

The audit, by State's inspector general, was prompted by the discovery in March that three of the department's contract workers had peeked at the private passport files of Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain and that a State Department trainee had examined the file of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

To test the extent of the snooping, investigators assembled a list of 150 famous Americans and checked how many times their files were accessed over a 5 1/2 -year period. Investigators found that the records of 127, or 85 percent, had been searched a total of more than 4,100 times.


Celebrity Passport Records Popular
State Dept. Audit Finds Snooping Was Frequent

Even the rich and famous aren't elusive to being spied on. Here's a toon on this subject matter.

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  • dontloseyourheatdontloseyourheat Posts: 483
    Who is doing the snooping?

    More than likely it's some 20 yr old intern being paid minium wage.

    It's not like they are trackign these people's every move, they are probably just trying to waste time until they get to go home for they day.

    Not a big deal but still concerning.
    Obviously the state department needs to review who has the ability to get into this kind of information.
    "Don't lose your inner heat...ever" - EV 5/13/06
  • Skitch PattersonSkitch Patterson Posts: 642
    when i worked for a major company, that did financing, i would often check on local sports stars to see what town they lived in, what they drove and if their occupation actually said "outfielder" or something like that. I never did anything with the information, just had fun screwing around at work from time to time.
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Skitch Patterson wrote:
    when i worked for a major company, that did financing, i would often check on local sports stars to see what town they lived in, what they drove and if their occupation actually said "outfielder" or something like that. I never did anything with the information, just had fun screwing around at work from time to time.

    Just think if you could easily do that just imagine what our security agencies can do when THEY decide to watch over our citizens. No one is really has privately secure with their info, someone probably knows about my 9 day trip to Las Vegas and even knows I didn't bet a $$ in the casinos the whole time my lady and I were their.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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