FTC Loses Lap Tops With 110 Employees Personal Data

Hey I thought the Federal Trade Commission was suppose to catch Identity Thieves not give out personal employee information to them? What gives this time? Well it appears that the mighty FTC had some laptops stolen in Scottsdale, AZ. But may I ask what they were doing in that area of prime real estate and luxury five star hotels with golf course when they should have been in Washington DC working for us the taxpayers? Were they screwing off using government credit cards again? Oh boy, and look what happen while they were? The lost personal data from 110 employees?

Gee, I thought these morons (opinion) were suppose to be curbing Identity Theft and taking a bite out of crime but no? Instead reports now say that; The personal information was gathered in law enforcement investigations and included, variously, names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and in some instances, financial account numbers. Heck the FTC or Federal Trade Commission cannot even protect their own teams identity information.

May I ask how in hell they are suppose to Protect the American People from Identity Theft if they cannot even protect themselves? Consider all this in 2006; it appears our government is now at an all time low and as for the FTC, they need to come clean and lets just close that agency can we? What a waste of taxpayers money indeed.

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