NATO officials have answered or dismissed the charges, but have said errors were committed.
Still, the Pentagon has said errors were unavoidable in a bombing campaign of the intensity of that being conducted in Afghanistan.
Rita Marie Fulginiti, vice president of the statewide organization that represents county clerks, said errors were quite common, recalling mistakes like spelling problems and incorrect Spanish translations.
Others joined in, and Dr. Abraham, though he defended his work, saying errors were common in any historical work, ended up leaving the history profession, going to law school and becoming a professor of immigration law at the University of Miami.
That said, errors were made along the way, a fact that didn't surprise him.
The ABS said the error was caused by a "mail-merging error" that was a one-off issue.
Chrysler, an arm of DaimlerChrysler, denied any responsibility for the problem, saying driver error was the most likely cause.
The government said the error was in personal consumption expenditures goods, "specifically, estimates of consumer purchases of light trucks".
It was further amended on 17 December 2013 to add that Amazon says the error was unrelated to Disney's request.
Janlori Goldman, the director of the Health Privacy Center, a nonprofit organization in Washington, said the error was "an egregious breach of privacy".
