EPA acknowledges releasing personal details on farmers, senator slams agency | Fox News.
The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental groups, following concerns from congressional Republicans and agriculture groups that the release could endanger their safety.
According to a document obtained by FoxNews.com, the EPA said “some of the personal information that could have been protected … was released.” Though the EPA has already sent out the documents, the agency now says it has since redacted sensitive details and asked the environmental groups to “return the information.”
But Sen. John Thune, who originally complained about the release, slammed the EPA for trying to retroactively recover the sensitive data.
Do you really want the government to have access to your medical records? Can you not consider that information you provide to the government may eventually be used against you? I’m sure you’ve heard the story of the frog and the warm water vs. the frog and boiling water?
FINAL QUESTION: DO YOU BELIEVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS WILL RETURN THE RECORDS AND ERASE THEM FROM THEIR INTERNAL STORAGE AND PAPERWORK? REALLY?
I don’t get it. Why do environmental groups need farmers’ medical information?
Mark, thanks for keeping me honest. It’s simply “personal information”. I had been writing on medical privacty elsewhere and obviously hadn’t “flushed the cache” properly.