Personal data has again been lost in Britain. This time the personal details of 600 000 people interested in joining the Armed Forces. The data stored on a laptop belonging to a to a Royal Navy officer was stolen from a vehicle in Birmingham.
This is the third time in two months that personal data has been lost in the UK. First it was 25 million child benefit records, then the details of three million learner drivers and now the 600 000 records of would-be recruits.
The British people are of course wondering how things like this can happen over and over again, and I have to agree. It doesn't take a genius to understand that one should not leave a laptop over night in a car or sending data disks containing 25 million records with the mail. Wonder if not using common sense is a requirement when applying for work at the British government?
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I'm studying for the Certified Information Privacy exam and just this weekend was studying about privacy laws in the EU as opposed to the US. I actually told a colleague today that it seemed to me that the EU was a step ahead of us Yanks in this area. Perhaps I spoke too soon?
That’s what I thought too and have been told in several seminars and lectures. I guess that’s why people get so annoyed. There was a new article yesterday in the Telegraph saying that military personnel were no longer allowed to bring their laptops home. And that will help… I don’t think so.
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