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British Government Commits Biggest Ever Personal Data Breach
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11-21-2007, 01:20 AM
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A government minister has just tried to evade a journalists question asking if the data on the two discs was even encripted. Apparently (after repeated questioning) she said it was not "proceedure" to do this...
Is this what they mean by a distributed database? I thought it was something altogether different.
On the BBC website (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7103940.stm
) a member of the public points out:
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"On 5 November we had £2,800 removed from our Alliance & Leicester bank account by someone who pretended to be my wife, but convinced our bank through the use of child benefit information to empty our account!"
"At the time, our bank was at a loss to explain how such detailed info was somehow available to someone else. At least we now know how,"
s63 (5) of the Data Protection Act (1998):
"Neither a government department nor a person who is a data controller by virtue of subsection (3) [this is the royals] shall be liable to prosecution under this Act"
How nice of them to exempt themselves from their own law.
Oh - and guess who got the contract for running the governments internal mail system? Rupert Murdoch.
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