I turned on my computer today to learn that the top story in the nation was that the candidates passport data had been compromised. I thought about what is on my passport. Hmmm. Not much that I don't tell people all the time. Okay, if it was my passport, I wouldn't care if anybody looked at it, just so long as they didn't print out the info and sell it to somebody who would steal my identity.
I thought that maybe there was actually more in this record that was looked at than I was aware of, but yahoo's article said . . . or maybe it was the AP's (I didn't look) said specifically,
It was not clear whether the employees saw anything other than the basic personal data such as name, citizenship, age, Social Security number and place of birth, which is required when someone fills out a passport application. The file also includes date and place of birth and address at time of application. Agency officials said the files generally would not list countries the person has traveled to.
THIS is NEWS??? Who cares that somebody snooped around and discovered things they could have probably found out easily by just going to the candidates home page.
