Up until Monday, we hadn’t had any of our data lost by the government (as far as we knew). We shouldn’t have been one of the 25 million lost due to being child benefit claimants, or one of the many other breaches.
Some of the breaches are potentially very serious should it fall into the wrong [...]
So, the Government has managed to lose a USB stick containing the details of tens of thousands of criminals.
We should not focus on the fact that this is the data of criminals - that will be of little concern to many - but instead look at what’s happened here in terms of data protection. [...]
‘The Nasty Party’ used to be a term applied to the Tories. This is most emphatically no longer the case.
Putting aside historical issues for a moment and looking at recent weeks:
Kathz wrote about an issue (mirror) which I noted, but did not post about until now. That is of Labour playing nasty in Crewe.
The [...]
A fundamental flaw with biometric ID cards has been demonstrated in a very high profile way.
In the most recent issue of Die Datenschleuder, the Chaos Computer Club printed the image [of the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's interior minister] on a plastic foil that leaves fingerprints when it is pressed against biometric readers. (my emphasis)
“The [...]
The BBC has an article spawned from the new programme, ‘The Last Enemy‘
A comparison is often made with ID cards on the Continent, yet they are nothing like the UK ID card because they hold far less information.
Yet it’s not simply a case of pointing a disapproving finger at the “tentacles” of the state. There’s [...]
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