ID contractor denounced over data loss | Politics | The Guardian

ID contractor denounced over data loss | Politics | The Guardian

The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, yesterday denounced the consultancy firm involved in the development of the ID cards scheme for “completely unacceptable” practice after losing a memory stick containing the personal details of all of the 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.

The memory stick contained unencrypted information from the electronic system for monitoring offenders through the criminal justice system, including information about 10,000 of the most persistent offenders.

Yesterday, Smith moved to distance the government from the data loss, the latest in a series of security breaches since the high-profile loss in November 2007 of two CDs containing child benefit details of 25 million individuals.

No2Id.

This entry was written by Jax, posted on Sat Aug 23 2008 at 0:28, filed under Stealing your freedom. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

3 Comments

  1. t-bird anni
    Posted Sat Aug 23 2008 at 6:58 | Permalink

    rolls eyes….

  2. SallyM
    Posted Sat Aug 23 2008 at 7:51 | Permalink

    We’re just all super confident about that ID card now aren’t we….

  3. David Gerard
    Posted Mon Aug 25 2008 at 13:40 | Permalink

    No reason not to let an integrated ID card, biometric passport, complete NHS medical record and chip in your head go ahead! … maybe. http://notnews.today.com/?p=36

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