How to Prevent Digital Snooping

As the first digital president, Barack Obama is learning the hard way how difficult it can be to maintain privacy in the information age. Earlier this year, his passport file was snooped by contract workers in the State Department. In October, someone at Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaked information about his aunt’s immigration status. And in November, Verizon employees peeked at his cellphone records. What these three incidents illustrate is not that computerized databases are vulnerable to hacking–we already knew that, and anyway the perpetrators all had legitimate access to the systems they used–but how important audit is as a security measure.

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