FDA, contractor bicker over Web posting of scientists’ e-mails
Source: Washington Post
The Food and Drug Administration’s parent agency told a government contractor that 80,000 pages of confidential employee communications that the company posted on the Internet contained no sensitive or personally identifiable information, documents show.
The communications are at the center of a controversial surveillance-gathering operation that monitored a group of whistleblowing scientists critical of the FDA’s process of reviewing medical devices.
The contractor, a document management company hired to archive the data, released a government work order to congressional investigators this week that stated the files did not contain classified, sensitive or personal information.
The government’s instructions to Maryland-based Quality Associates may explain why the company stored the documents on an unsecured Internet site.
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