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Snooping into private passport files found widespread

July 3, 2008 By The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization into the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found. One celebrity's records were breached 356 times by more than six dozen people.

The audit, by State's inspector general, was prompted by the discovery in March that three contract workers...

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