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Originally Posted by Ravenheart
the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has told the Ministry of Defence and the HM Revenue and Customs that if they don't get their act together
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7472814.stm
So data losses and information security should be taken seriously. Isn't that what we've been trying to tell him and his department for months? |
Those losses, while careless, were supposedly
accidental.
The use of Phorm spyware in 2006/7 was
secret,
illegal,
deliberate, and
intentional.
From that article;
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"The two discs had still not been found, he added, despite searches by both police and HMRC staff, but there was no evidence of any fraudulent activity as a result of the loss."
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So while prosecutions follow against careless civil servants for non-fraudulent error (presumably
not the politicians responsible for leading the departments)...
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"[Alistair Darling] "apologised unreservedly" to everyone affected by the data loss and said the public were entitled to expect government departments would protect their personal details. "
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So is the Information Commissioner saying we aren't entitled to expect commercial enterprises like BT to protect the personal information of their customers, or respect their right to privacy and security? Even when they break the law intentionally?
The man must go.
Richard Thomas, the door over there, with
[EXIT] over it.
