revenue data breaches
Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss
News Other voters were slightly less draconian in their views with 31 per cent suggesting company bosses should be fired for losing data.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data... [14 Feb 2008]
Police unprepared for security 'arms race'
News An e-petition calling for the return of a dedicated unit was set up in the wake of the spate of government data breaches, which began with the loss of 25 million child benefit records by HM Revenue & Customs. [14 Feb 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient... [04 Feb 2008]
ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence
News Recent data breaches include the loss of 25 million details by HM Revenue & Customs, reported last November, and the more recent loss of a Ministry of Defence laptop containing 3,700 people's bank details, as well as other data on up to 600,000... [31 Jan 2008]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News The ongoing data loss fiasco in government continued with a raft of new breaches being revealed across government departments and NHS Trusts. HM Revenue & Customs admitted it was forced to cough up £2.25m to send out letters of apology to the 25... [30 Jan 2008]
Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops
News All Whitehall staff have been banned from removing laptops containing unencrypted personal data from offices in the wake of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) data loss.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants... [22 Jan 2008]
Should data loss be made a criminal offence?
News Joseph Hoban, VP at data protection software company GuardianEdge, said: "With more public sector data breaches on the horizon, the government must act now to avoid a certain repeat of the HMRC debacle. [04 Jan 2008]
Commons' committee calls for reckless-data-loss laws
News Its calls echo silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign for legislation which would require organisations that suffer security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individual's sensitive personal data at risk. [03 Jan 2008]
Gov't not trusted with public data
News Public confidence in the government's ability to safeguard data would have been shaken further by other recent government data breaches, said Beer. The majority of UK citizens do not trust the government with their data following the HM Revenue... [14 Dec 2007]
Top 10 security stories of the year
News Full Disclosure - silicon.com launches data breaches campaign silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign launched this year calling for a rethink of the UK law to force organisations to report breaches of their data security which could put their... [13 Dec 2007]
Downing St responds to silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign
News As part of the campaign silicon.com launched an online petition on the Downing Street website calling for the Prime Minister to improve the reporting of information security breaches in the public and private sectors. [10 Dec 2007]
Are UK data laws fit for purpose?
News Which must then be weighed up against the potential for breaches in security such as we have seen this week. The UK's data protection laws have been branded 'unfit for purpose' in the wake of the loss of CDs containing 25 million records by HM... [23 Nov 2007]
HMRC email rejected filtering of sensitive data
News The first email exchange relates to the NAO's request for National Insurance numbers from the child benefit database for the 2006/2007 audit.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review... [23 Nov 2007]
Leader: It's time for a data breach disclosure law
Leader The original California law - known as SB 1386 - obliges Californian state agencies or private sector businesses to disclose data security breaches to residents if their unencrypted personal information may have been compromised. [22 Nov 2007]
Security experts slam HMRC over data loss
News Jonathon Armstrong, principal partner at law firm Eversheds drew parallels with a similar security breaches in the US last year, when 26 million armed forces veterans' personal data was lost and when retailer TJX lost more than 90 million... [22 Nov 2007]
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