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The fault of low level civil servants?

Regarding the recent data leak: The Conservatives say the crisis is down to “systemic” errors at HMRC – but the government insists it was the fault of low level civil servants.’ Source Rubbish – why was it possible for a low level civil servant to download the entire database in one go and burn it to CD? (i.e. [...]
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It was too expensive…

Following the fiasco of losing the personal details of 25 million people it has emerged that the audit office did not request all of the information that was sent: ‘the NAO wanted only limited child benefit records but was told in an e-mail from a senior business manager in March that to remove more sensitive information [...]
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Government CDs on Ebay

Following yesterday’s cock-up, Enjoy
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