17 Dec 2007

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*

Posted by Ruth Kennedy on 17/12/07 at 5:15pm
Categories · "What do we want?" · Design: user-oriented · Foundation of Trust · Identity · Data nitwittery
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