US Chicago Board of Elections 2007 Technical Error (Q11633)
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A data breach risk event
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US Chicago Board of Elections 2007 Technical Error
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A data breach risk event
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January 2007
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For the second time since October, the Chicago Board of Elections finds itself facing charges that it failed to adequately protect the privacy of voters in the city. State and federal class action lawsuits filed earlier this week allege that the Board was negligent when it distributed more than 100 computer disks containing Social Security numbers and other personal data on more than 1.3 million voters to alderman and ward committee members. The 11-page state and six-page federal lawsuits ask the court to force the board to recover the disks and erase the data on them. The lawsuits, which seek unspecified monetary damages, also call on the board to notify affected individuals of the breach. What wed like to see is some sort of an endowment, similar to what the [Department of Veterans Affa (English)
