A State Department file clerk has been sentenced to one year of probation and 75 hours of community service for illegally accessing the confidential passport applications of 70 celebrities in 2007, AFP reports. Susan Holloman admitted to viewing the passport applications, which were protected under the U.S. Privacy Act, through a computer database. The files contained such personal data as photographs, dates and places of birth, addresses, telephone numbers and parent and spouse information. Holloman, who is the ninth State Department employee to plead guilty to similar charges, told prosecutors the reason she accessed the files was "idle curiosity."
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