TITLE 18 U.S.C. § 701: U.S. Code – Section 701: Official badges, identification cards, other insignia.
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“Whoever manufactures, sells or possesses any badge, identification card or other insignia of the design prescribed by the head of any department or agency of the United States for use by any officer or employee thereof, or any colorable imitation thereof, or photographs, prints, or in any other manner makes or executes any engraving, photograph, print, or impression in the likeness of any such badge, identification card, or other insignia, or any colorable imitation thereof, except as authorized under regulations made pursuant to law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.”
This law is part of the U.S. Code is and currently published by the U.S. government and reflects the law passed by Congress as of Jan. 8, 2008. The Web site for this can be found at http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C33.txt.
Octapharma plasma, Inc. requires a photo ID in order to make a blood plasma donation. If a military or other service ID is presented, then the company makes a photocopy of the identification and keeps the copy in a donor record chart. These charts are often not securely kept (either not locked in file cabinets,in the processing lab or left laying on desks after hours) and available to all company staff and potentially non-company staff such as janitorial services and pest control contractors.
Several hundred copies of military and other service IDs exist in these collection centers.
Names, mailing addresses, military ID numbers and social security numbers are also recorded in the company database, all on one screen rather than separate areas in the database. Most of the database is DOS based and antiquated. Should the system be hacked, all personal data is readily available in the same screen instance? WTF?
Negligent data warehousing?
Violation of federal law?
Source links:
http://www.forthoodsentinel.com/story.php?id=2139
http://www.dcmilitary.com/stories/081309/stripe_28227.shtml
“Whoever manufactures, sells or possesses any badge, identification card or other insignia of the design prescribed by the head of any department or agency of the United States for use by any officer or employee thereof, or any colorable imitation thereof, or photographs, prints, or in any other manner makes or executes any engraving, photograph, print, or impression in the likeness of any such badge, identification card, or other insignia, or any colorable imitation thereof, except as authorized under regulations made pursuant to law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.”
This law is part of the U.S. Code is and currently published by the U.S. government and reflects the law passed by Congress as of Jan. 8, 2008. The Web site for this can be found at http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C33.txt.
Octapharma plasma, Inc. requires a photo ID in order to make a blood plasma donation. If a military or other service ID is presented, then the company makes a photocopy of the identification and keeps the copy in a donor record chart. These charts are often not securely kept (either not locked in file cabinets,in the processing lab or left laying on desks after hours) and available to all company staff and potentially non-company staff such as janitorial services and pest control contractors.
Several hundred copies of military and other service IDs exist in these collection centers.
Names, mailing addresses, military ID numbers and social security numbers are also recorded in the company database, all on one screen rather than separate areas in the database. Most of the database is DOS based and antiquated. Should the system be hacked, all personal data is readily available in the same screen instance? WTF?
Negligent data warehousing?
Violation of federal law?