WASHINGTON, July 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. State Department employees frequently snoop inside electronic passport records of U.S. celebrities without authorization, the Washington Post reported Friday. The findings were made by an internal audit led by the department's inspector general, according to the report. In one case, a celebrity's records were breached 356 times by more than six dozen people. The audit was prompted by a discovery in March that three of the department's contract workers had peeked at the private passport files of Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain and that a State Department trainee had examined the file of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The report documented a widespread lack of controls on the personal data of the 127 million Americans who hold passports, finding numerous "weaknesses, including a...
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