Legal Opinion
Fanin v. United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 17, 2009No. 08-11102PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Someone pulled off the trick of making an object disappear from a safe in a darkened office building over a cold and rainy weekend. Unfortunately, the magician never completed the trick by making it reappear. The missing object is hardly a stage prop. It is an external computer hard drive belonging to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) containing the unencrypted names, social security numbers, birth dates, and healthcare files of more than 198,000 living veterans. With that treasure trove of private data the hard drive is a pocket-sized gold mine for identity…
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