[Wylug-discuss] Data Protection Act

[Christopher Brown]

On 21/11/2007, Chris Street <chris at chris-street.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Oh the zip file was password protected? Ah well thats okay they're
really hard to break. I wonder what password was used but at the same
time am terrified to find out.

> 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!

Is that a Harry Potter spell?

/joke

I can't wait for PMQ's.

http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/page306.asp

mplayer -playlist http://video.twofourtv.com/play/number10_live_wm.asp?.wvx

Cheers
Chris

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