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UK - Home Office looses a new disk containing thousands of personal details
By a Correspondent 22-08-08
The Labour government has been accused of a massive failure of duty after tens of thousands of details of people were lost in another record data blunder as the security of thousands of people 'went into the public domain' The British Home secretary Jacqui Smith came under intense fire on Friday after an additional memory stick containing the personal details was reported lost on Friday morning.
The data was lost by a contractor working for the Home Office. PA Consulting, a contractor consulting firm working for the Home Office reported loosing the data on Friday morning. The data was not encrypted meaning that it is in open view to any layperson. On this memory stick, are the details of many criminals which in some cases included the date of release of offenders. In addition to these details were also the details of informants, those who collaborated in getting criminals implicated.
Speaking on BBC News on Friday morning Conservative MP David Ruffley expressed concern noting that the disk was lost from Jacqui Smith's own office building which thing he said was seriously worrying. This is so despite the fact that a few month before, the Hoe secretary had promised she would tighten up security. David Ruffley voiced concern that this sort of 'negligence' is not common in other countries like the United States where simple controls are in place to control as he said
'what you take in and what you take out'
Source - BBC - ZimEye - and Agencies