I think the big deal is really to do with the ID card scheme. If the government cannot keep low to medium level information secure, some of which could be used for identity theft, then do we trust them enough to keep all the information that would be on an ID card secure? For me, and probably quite a few others I think the answer would be a resounding no.

To be honest it's not a massive shock that this data has been lost, I think it was simply a matter of time before it happened. It's amusing that legislation that would, if I recall, penalize those who lost such information was rejected by the government recently. Does make you wonder if they did this as they new things were missing and did not want to be accountable for them.

 

Salsa's gone a bit quiet, wonder if he's got wedged in a dust bin somewhere looking for that easy to come by information

 

He will have advertised for the two disks on Ebay Olly!

Les

 

Beaten to it Les

 

The ID Scheme is dead, deader than dead. THe government are in an impossible position

They either say that Ministers are not involved in the day to day running of the scheme, in which case they clearly cannot guarantee it will be watertight.

Or

They say that they are involved in the day to day running of such things, in which case resignations need to happen now.

Either way, an ID card scheme is now completely untenable. Which is the only good thing to come out of this whole sorry mess.

 

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rock on that man

 

I agree with you Pete, but when have this lot taken any notice of logic when they want to do something so badly for their own convenience?

Just like the Eu constitution, now called treaty, once again to give an excuse to the lie!

Les

 

we got a letter off the gov this morning saying we were one of the family and apologising.
so thats alright then.

my sister got her id stolen by a nigerian fraudster from london, she lived in manchester, he was caught purely by accident, he was at the post office, and gave his address as my sisters and her friend was stood right behind him . ooppps.

back to the data though we have courier firms on all the time they sign the slip and then walk off without the freight, can this data not be zapped down a line instead of using a courier.

 

What many of you don't know is that most of the Government computer systems are being run by contractors - CapGemini, IBM, Steria and others - who charge a daily rate - I repeat - A DAILY RATE that starts at £1,400, yes, £1,400 for the erks, and rises to £3,000 YES that is THREE THOUSAND POUNDS A DAY for the senior managers.

And it is these muppets who are wasting OUR taxes on making complex, bespoke IT systems when half the time, something could be bought off the shelf for one hundredth of the capital spend.

And to add insult to the financial injury, they still make simple, basic, ****-ups of the kind we have just seen when, having saved a couple of hundred thousand by not getting somone to write a script to pull only the basic info the National Audit office wanted in the first place, they sent the discs in the internal post instead of sending a clerk on the train to Buckingham Palace Gate in London with the discs taped inside his bluddy underpants.

God preserve us from these idiots.

 

 

Received a letter today confirming that the discs contained my families information.But not to worry as the British police are on the case. Will now wait for the letter telling me I am under suspision of commiting the crime because they have discovered that I have an internet connection therefore I have a PC capable of reading the discs.