[Wylug-discuss] HMRC data loss = No ID cards?

[Shaun Laughey]

James Holden wrote:
> All,
>
> The beeb reports...
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm
>
> ...that junior civil servants at HMRC burned the entire database of
> child benefit recipients, including NI numbers, DOBs and bank details on
> to a couple of CD-Rs, then stuck them in the post, and lost them.
>
> This would include me (+ wife + kids) so I'm hardly impressed.
>
> On the plus side, does this mean that the government's ability to manage
> big databases of personal information is now proved to be utterly
> non-existent? Perhaps now they'll never manage to pull off the national
> ID card database.
>
> James
>   
I think I heard some governmenty person using it as a JUSTIFICATION for 
ID cards.

:'(


Shaun Laughey.