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News And last year, two CDs containing the confidential personal details of 25 million child benefit recipients were lost by HM Revenue & Customs. Just last month it emerged that the details... [22 Aug 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) postponed the PAYE system because of uncertainty over whether it was ready to oversee the collection of taxes from about 31 million people.silicon.com Public Sector The system to bring... [21 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News The Poynter Review recently highlighted systematic data handling failures in the HM Revenue & Customs that led to it losing the personal details of 25 million people. The UK's privacy watchdog could get... [17 Jul 2008]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News The Data Sharing Review found that measures were needed to restore public trust in the way Whitehall handles information in the wake of high profiled data breaches, such as HM Revenue & Customs losing 25 million people's... [11 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The IPCC was looking into events leading up to the loss of data and considering whether any criminal conduct or disciplinary offences had been committed by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) staff. Problems of this nature arose... [26 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is taking enforcement action against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for breaching the Data Protection Act. Two government departments face... [25 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up And over at the head offices of HM Revenue & Customs, life is returning to normal. A shadow home affairs spokesman said he was shocked that "so many public officials have been sacked or disciplined for abusing people's... [02 May 2008]
600 HMRC workers caught snooping
News The government faced condemnation after it emerged that 600 staff at Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have been disciplined for snooping on personal data. A shadow home affairs spokesman said: "It's shocking that... [01 May 2008]
Video Cheat Sheet: Data breaches
video Plus, discover what steps the government and privacy watchdogs are taking to prevent any more embarrassing leaks such as HM Revenue & Customs losing computer discs with the details of 25 million people... [24 Apr 2008]
UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months
News Organisations continue to lose sensitive personal data - despite high profile cases such as the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data breach, and the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has warned chief executives to... [22 Apr 2008]
Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance
News The ban on removal of laptops and portable devices with unencrypted personal data was introduced across all government departments in the wake of a string of high profile data losses, including the loss of 600,000 personnel... [04 Apr 2008]
'Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC
News Scores of "data guardians" have been employed to protect HM Revenue & Customs from a repeat of the child benefit data scandal. It was on former chairman Paul Gray's watch that the department lost the two CDs containing... [29 Feb 2008]
Data breaches: No more than normal
News HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million details of people claiming and receiving child benefit was the catalyst for a surge of data-loss reports, an ICO spokesperson told silicon.com sister site... [18 Feb 2008]
Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss
News The poll follows on from the HM Revenue & Customs loss in November 2007 of two CDs containing the details of 25 million people and a flurry of reported incidents since.silicon.com's Full Disclosure... [14 Feb 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News Sir Edmund Burton, chairman of the Information Advisory Council, is examining weaknesses in the MoD data security procedures and there is an ongoing cross-government review of data handling following HM Revenue &... [04 Feb 2008]
