Survey says…(insert buzzer noise)
Faith in the (UK) gov’s ability to securely manage personal data is out the window.
From Reuters:
The inquiries followed Britain’s biggest data loss scandal, when two discs containing child benefit records, including names, addresses and bank details, of some 25 million people, went missing after being put in the post by a junior employee.
The reports concluded that it wasn’t individuals who were to blame – some 30 were officials played some role in events leading to the loss of the discs – but institutional and systematic failures at Britain’s tax authority.
But the HMRC is not alone in such security breaches. A separate report into a stolen laptop containing the details of 600,000 potential recruits revealed similar failings at the Ministry of Defence. In all, four MoD computers had been stolen since 2004 and the report said the MoD was probably in breach of several principles set out in the Data Protection Act.
Well, where do you stand? Do you trust your respective government not to punt on data security?
Read on.
