It’s nip and tuck in the 2007 data mismanagement awards…

Oh dear. The Beeb reports that the details of three million candidates for the driving theory test have gone missing, Ruth Kelly has told MPs.

Names, addresses and phone numbers - but not financial data - were among details on a computer hard drive which went missing in the US in May.


Hang on - where? In the US? That nation which has no comprehensive data protection legislation?

It belonged to a contractor to the Driving Standards Agency, the transport secretary told MPs.

Surely the data was ‘being taken care of by’ rather than ‘belonged to’?
*Sigh*

Published by Ruth Kennedy on 17/12/07 at 5:15pm

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  1. I’d imagine the secretary of state is deeply mortified.

    Reply by  on  12/17/07  at  9:41 pm

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