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Insecurity Travel: State Dept. as Celeb Obsessed as We Are

July 9, 2008 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments

There's a little encouraging news from the State Department's ongoing security investigation: Employees aren't trying to look at your passport... unless you're Beyonce. Or John McCain. Or the late Anna Nicole Smith.

The department ordered a probe after word leaked in March that files for the three presidential candidates still in the race had been improperly pulled from the Passport Information Electronic Records System, to which about 20,000 people have access. A new test showed that out of 150 celebrity names (chosen from Google's most searched-for-list and Sports Illustrated), 127 of them had been accessed recently. Knowles' documents were peeked at more than 100 times.

It's probably for the best that B seems to be staying in the country right now; she's set to film a thriller called "Obsessed" with Idris Elba and Ali Larter in LA and she is reportedly in talks to join the cast of "Desperate Housewives."

Related Stories:
· Report Finds Far More Viewing of Celebrities' Passport Files [NYT]
· Lessons from the Obama Passport Breach: Become Identity Vigilant [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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