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 [...]
This time it’s the details of 600000 people who’ve made enquiries to join the armed forces.
Not exactly low profile risks…
… and they still think it’s a good idea to put the information of the whole population into a single over-arching and over-reaching ID database.
The data security design (or lack of it) is befuddling.
Data Loss