data blunder
RSS data blunderHome Office prisoner data breach: Bigger blunder than first thought
News Remember the massive data loss last year that saw the records of more than 84,000 prisoners go missing when a USB stick was lost by a Home Office contractor? More details on the loss have emerged this week, with the Home... [27 Aug 2009]
Security Blundered Brits: Could We Learn From the US?
White Paper Never a day goes by when one doesn't hear about another security blunder with highly confidential information being lost not only by Government departments but also by other large corporations including the DVA, DVLA,... [12 Feb 2009]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment At the end of last week the Home Office announced its latest blunder concerning the public's personal data. Read security experts opinions on the latest Home Office blunder here… PA... [28 Aug 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment It's a sorry story for the public sector to be in, and clearly the lessons of the taxman's blunder have still not been learned. It's been a while since I've mentioned silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign, which is... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was declared "deplorable" and "entirely avoidable" in two reports into the data blunder released this week. Timeline of the HM... [26 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News HMRC data blunder: Timeline of events Two government departments face enforcement action from the UK data protection watchdog for between them losing more than 25 million people's... [25 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth
Comment This is all a bit of a blunder. Do I have the best available data? And while it is easy to see how we might automate the truth filtering of established factually based data, it is not... [31 Mar 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News HMRC data blunder raises new questions… D is for Data privacy worries Latest data breaches taking their toll? Or where the whole project started? The project has never... [29 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.01.08
Round-Up Before you say, "Oh no, not another government data loss blunder" just consider this: could it be an ever-so-cunning recruitment drive? After all, if the government can't look after our... [25 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.11.07
Round-Up One little irony this week is that HMRC employees are apparently so stressed by the pressures on the department caused by the data loss blunder that they're demanding punch bags. In the meantime, kudos... [30 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?
Comment HMRC email rejected filtering of sensitive data Obviously they have no idea how little time this takes, so they felt they had to use a 'scan' of the data they already had? Whichever way anyone looks at... [29 Nov 2007]
Minister calls for ID cards review
News Plans for a national ID database must be reviewed following the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data blunder, according to the government's own data protection minister. Speaking at a joint... [27 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.11.07
Round-Up So, after struggling to recall which way around the saddle should point, the Round-Up galloped off in the direction of Whitehall (unfortunately this guy took a wrong turn) after Her Majesty's government admitted to a staggering... [23 Nov 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 23.11.07
Round-Up Podcast HMRC's data blunder, bank balance phobia, life in the Mac hotel and the latest on MySpace soap Quarterlife are all discussed in the Weekly Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio... [23 Nov 2007]
HMRC data blunder to sink ID cards?
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The loss of the data was not made public until weeks after the discs went astray.... [22 Nov 2007]
