[Wylug-discuss] Data Protection Act

[Chris Street]

Rob Hall wrote:

I've sent my MP a list of searching questions. Having been slapped with 
the Standard Life breach and now this one I must confess Openoffice was 
set to "nuclear fallout" on the annoyed meter.... Perhaps if everyone 
else sent their MP a letter about this and expressed dismay we may get 
the ID cards database knocked on the head.

What I want to know is how a "junior offical" was even able to do a full 
data daump in the first place, let alone send it out in what seems to be 
a password protected ZIP file. Three times.

Darling then reports that the data isn't in the wrong hands - well if 
the NAO hasn't got it then it's in the wrong hands simple as that. 
Reading the transcript on Hansard reveals a woeful and cavalier attitude 
to this even after a screwup of this magnitude....

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtoday/cmdebate/03.htm


> Surely with this latest govt. cock up the Data Protection Commissioner
> needs to be invoked!
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