In an essay for Slate, Rochester Institute of Technology Assistant Professor and Berkman Center Associate Josephine Wolff discusses the uncomfortable conversations she’s looking forward to having at Thanksgiving dinner, just days after receiving a letter notifying her that her data, and that of all the friends and family on her SF-86 background check form, has been compromised as part of the hack of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. “It’s frustrating that the U.S. government went to all the trouble to collect information on the (painfully boring) minutiae of my life in the name of protecting national security only to leave that information woefully unprotected,” she writes.
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