Outsourced Confidential Data On Children Posted

Posted by simoniker on Monday February 9, 2004 @10:32AM from the spiral-of-delegation dept.

Kataire writes "MSNBC exposes a grievous blunder in which an outsourced programmer posts highly confidential data to a public website, concerning the daily whereabouts of hundreds of children in upstate New York. Yes, this person did this not once, or twice, but three times, with two different data sets. Even worse, the data was out there, publicly 'visible' for months. Just because RentACoder finally discovered and yanked it, after a coder 'stuck with a tricky formatting issue' posted the specific database he was working on to their messageboards, doesn't mean the damage is undone. The ramifications reach beyond the painfully obvious privacy issues, touching on outsourcing and peer ethics."

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Re:Who do you trust? by Uber+Banker · 2004-02-09 11:24 · Score: 1, Redundant

Ever notice they dont print the names of juvenile suspects in the newspaper?

It is illegal to print the names of juvenile suspects in most countries. The newspaper don't like to get their asses sued.

In many countries it is also illegal to print the names of convicted jeuveniles (something to do with being over the legal age of responsibility (~8 years old in some countries) but not totally responsible until they're a bit older (~14 in many countries)).