"Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:e51sm3hh5r8cfvpmf9qncvsum8bfr86gsc@4ax.com... > TV news is reporting that for the third time in as many months important > data > about British citizens have gone missing from government departments. > > It's all getting a bit much -- haven't British civil servants ever heard > of > backups? > It's not the main copies of the data that's gone missiing. It's working copies sent out because the info isn't processed where it's stored. They're getting into a tiz because of issues of trust, general incompetence and identity theft. Lesley Robertson