if you believe that bullshit, please see exhibit “a”
I was gonna rant about the 25 million child benefit records lost by the government
Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing.
The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25m people.
but andy beat me to it. as he says:
This, quite simply, is one of the big practical reasons why the government shouldn’t be relentlessly collecting information about us. If the government, or a company for that matter, creates databases with huge amounts of private and personally-identifiable information, then at some point that information will escape. Someone will lose a laptop, or backup tapes, or fail to erase a discarded hard disk properly, and voila! — the bad guys have got it. Not to mention that hackers get into every system eventually, given sufficient motivation. When the politician says “but this system will be totally secure” he’s either lying, or else foolishly believed the vendor who lied to him.
and this is precisely why i vehemently disagree with the dna database, the nhs database, and i.d. cards. because the safeguards surrounding your information are only as trustworthy and secure as your government is.
as it turns out, not very.
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Comment by Nicole
20.11.2007 @ 20:27 pm
what a mess. . . I agree with you 100%
Comment by Thomas Foolery
20.11.2007 @ 21:20 pm
I’m with you fellers.
Comment by amity
20.11.2007 @ 21:25 pm
Ah, so that’ll be my details floating around out there then. Lovely.
Comment by Jen
20.11.2007 @ 21:34 pm
eeep, hadn’t thought about you amity!!
Comment by Vol Abroad
21.11.2007 @ 08:13 am
they were on the aquawk box yesterday lying about the safety of the ID scheme – oooh, it will be so much more sophistimacated.
Errr…someone didn’t specify copy protection and someone was stupid enough to send the data through the internal post. How will the ID scheme protect against that?
Comment by Jen
21.11.2007 @ 08:51 am
“Errr…someone didn’t specify copy protection and someone was stupid enough to send the data through the internal post. How will the ID scheme protect against that?”
exactly