UK government loses 29 million personal records this year
I’ve spent the best part of a month convincing organisations they need to put in better policies to protect themselves from leaking their customer’s personal data and then I read this Register article on how the British government have managed to loose 29 million records this year. Not bad in a country with just over 60 million inhabitants - almost one data loss per UK citizens.
4 million of these leaks have occurred since the Government’s review after the loss of 25 million records from Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customers from unencrypted CD-ROMs that went missing. Good to know that they’ve tightened up policies and procedures then - eh?
The Information Commissioner who is responsible for the protection of data within the United Kingdom has been too busy suing Marks & Spencer for the loss of a mere 26,000 employee records to look into how the government has managed to loose details of half of the UK’s citizens.
