>>Corporate, state, and federal requirements crack me up. First, it is absolutely forbidden to store on your local hard drive - not even on government computers.
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>>I worked for United Health Group for a period, and they had the same restrictions. No data stored on local drives.
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>I think that may be a HIPAA requirement. If you worked for United Health Group you know this already but for the benefit of others, HIPAA is a set of rules protecting the privacy of individuals' health data. In essence is means "need to know." So your doctor can see your health data but other doctors in the facility cannot. Or health care providers can see info about a specific admission they were involve with but not your compete health records. Penalties for violations are pretty severe.

Yes, it's a HIPAA rqmt.....my point was that different areas of the govt fall under different regulations. The IRS is under the Federal Records Act, and this latest B.S. story violates many parts of the FRA.

And the news over the weekend about Sonasoft (the email and data archive storage specialists) and their contract with the IRS that was suddenly terminated a few weeks after Lois Lerner's drive crash (which coincided with the very early first set of investigations against the IRS) just makes this entire thing stink incredibly. If our president doesn't force a special investigator, and immediately, then he's complicit.