[Gllug] Secure filing system?

[Bernard Peek]

On 16/02/11 14:15, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 13:18 +0000, Bernard Peek wrote:
>> A few years ago I went for in interview for a local government job
>> immediately after a data-loss scare. Apparently all local government
>> offices in the UK had been given a directive on data security and my job
>> would have been to manage compliance. One of the clauses was that
>> sensitive personal data was not to be taken off site at all under any
>> circumstances. Of course that meant that if there was a fire and
>> somebody died then all of the records of their next of kin would be in
>> the ashes. I pointed this out at interview and didn't get the job.
>> Apparently I'm too Bolshie to work for a labour council.
> Or that you lacked the imagination to suggest that the "off site" back
> ups be held onsite - just at a separate "onsite" that is part of the
> same local government organisation. That way you could have ensured data
> protection (the first part of which is still actually having the data in
> the event of an incident) while also keeping the idiots who thought they
> were in charge of such policies content in their stupidity.
They weren't permitted to let the data out of the building.


-- 
Bernard Peek
bap at shrdlu.com

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