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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 protect staff and customers... [22 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. A string of revelations about lost government data followed the HMRC data breach, including the NHS losing hundreds of... [29 Feb 2008]
Recycling kit the way to greener IT?
News Whatrup added: "I did hear that one batch of our old PCs had been 'blocked' at an international customs depot for not being able to be verified as Y2K compliant and not seen again. Richard Storey, head of IT, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust [18 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 ZDNet.co.uk. [18 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 & Customs' loss of 25 million child... [04 Feb 2008]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News HM Revenue & Customs admitted it was forced to cough up £2.25m to send out letters of apology to the 25 million people whose records it lost on two CDs and the theft of a Ministry of Defence laptop containing 600,000 records prompted a ban on all... [30 Jan 2008]
Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops
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 and Customs' loss of 25 million... [22 Jan 2008]
Should data loss be made a criminal offence?
News But the report is splitting opinion among senior figures in the IT industry, with disagreement over whether the government should resort to legislation in an attempt to prevent future incidents similar to the HM Revenue & Customs data breach. [04 Jan 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News Undoubtedly, the fall-out from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of two discs containing 25 million child benefit records has reverberated throughout the public sector with seismic proportions. Atos Origin NHS contract not in the best of health [19 Dec 2007]
Are UK data laws fit for purpose?
News 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 Revenue & Customs (HMRC). But Ted Woodhouse, consultant and former director of IT strategy for Leeds Teaching... [23 Nov 2007]
Leader: It's time for a data breach disclosure law
Leader If there's one lesson to come out of the catastrophic (government's own words) data breach at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) this week, it's surely now is the time for a data breach disclosure law.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign has been... [22 Nov 2007]
