Doug Williams offered for sale a book which instructed you how to fudge lie detector tests. Naturally, he kept records of his customers. The Customs and Border Protection Service thought that some of their employees may have bought the book and used it for nefarious doings. Customs was also concerned that employees of other federal agencies may also have similar employees. So, it sent to thirty other federal agencies a list of the 4,904 people who bought the book. The list included Social Security numbers, addresses and professions of many people. However, most of the 4,904 did not work for the federal government; they were nurses, firefighters, police officers, private attorneys, employees of Rite Aid, Paramount Pictures, the American Red Cross and Georgetown University. etc. In short, many innocent people became the subjects of government inquiries and searches.
The funny thing about this is that the validity of lie detector tests has become questionable. Despite this, several of our fellow citizens had their privacy validated for no good reason In the words of one government official, “There’s no indication that any of these individuals did anything wrong, actually received hands-on training, took a polygraph anywhere, utilized countermeasures or are with any federal agency" .
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