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Social Security Administration: Internet Access to Personal Earnings and Benefits Information

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 6, 1997
Report No. T-AIMD/HEHS-97-123
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Summary:

Concerns have been raised in Congress about whether the Social Security Administration's (SSA) interactive benefits estimates service adequately protects the privacy of Americans and whether unauthorized access to confidential information is taking place over the Internet. Although GAO has just begun a review of SSA's use of the Internet to disseminate benefits estimates, earlier reports have discussed computer and Internet security as well as the risks facing agencies in providing electronic access to data. (See GAO/AIMD-96-84, May 1996, and GAO/T-AIMD-96-108, June 1996.) This testimony focuses on general privacy and security considerations that federal agencies must address to safeguard sensitive information made available as a public service via the Internet.

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