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Isn't the USDA promising total and complete privacy with their NAIS M-ID system, too :???: :wink: If NCBA were the contractor I wonder how much info they would inadvertantly leak to their contollers in the board rooms of Tyson/Cargil etal?
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Farm Service Agency
Public Affairs Staff
1400 Independence Ave SW
Stop 0506, Room 3624-South
Washington, D.C. 20250-0506

Release No. 1414.06

Stevin Westcott (202) 720-4178


FSA NOTIFIES PRODUCERS OF INADVERTENT RELEASE OF PERSONAL
INFORMATION

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2006— The Farm Service Agency
(FSA) announced today that a firm under contract with its
Kansas City Administrative Office inadvertently released
the social security and tax identification numbers of
approximately 350,000 participants in the tobacco buyout
program
as part of a response to a number of Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests.

The social security and tax identification numbers,
which are protected from release under terms of the
Privacy Act, were inadvertently sent to eight requesters
on January 19, 2006, along with program data authorized
for release. FSA officials discovered the error on
February 9, 2006.

All eight FOIA requesters who received the data have
agreed to make no disclosures of the privacy protected
information, to return the disks containing the
information, and to destroy all copies of any records
derived from the data.

FSA is also taking steps to notify affected tobacco
producers and quota holders, and is recommending they
access their credit reports to assure that their personal
information has not been used improperly and that these
inadvertent releases have not compromised their individual
credit records. Individuals can find out how they may
request annual free copies of their credit reports, as
required by law, at https://www.annualcreditreport.com, or
through the Federal Trade Commission’s website at
http://onguardonline.gov/idtheft.html.
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