Call me crazy, but what business do the non-responding depts have in not 'fessing up their lost computer stats and why the hell isn't more pressure put on them to cough up the info
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101602.htmlThis disclosure by the department came in response to a request by the House Committee on Government Reform, which this summer asked 17 federal departments to detail any loss of computers holding sensitive personal information.
Of the 10 departments that have responded, the losses at Commerce are "by far the most egregious," said David Marin, staff director for the committee.
He added that the silence of the remaining seven departments could reflect their reluctance to reveal problems of similar magnitude.In a private briefing yesterday for three members of Congress, Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez estimated that the disappearance of laptops from the Census Bureau could have compromised the personal information of about 6,200 households, Marin said. He said the department was still trying to determine the extent of the problem.
The Federal Trade Commission has lost two laptops with files containing people's financial account numbers, and the Department of Agriculture announced that one of its laptops had disappeared along with personal information on about 350 employees.