Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Massive records loss in the U.K.

Governments and corporations wants us to trust them with our personal data, but fuck....

[British] Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he "profoundly regrets" the loss of 25 million child benefit records.
He told MPs he apologised for the "inconvenience and worries" caused and said the government was working to prevent the data being used for fraud.

But Conservative leader David Cameron said the government had "failed in its first duty to protect the public".

The Revenue and Customs data on the two missing discs includes names, dates of birth, bank and address details.


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