On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:10:08 +0000, Graeme Wall <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <e51sm3hh5r8cfvpmf9qncvsum8bfr86gsc@4ax.com> > Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> 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? > >Back-ups isn't the problem, the problem is that confidential data is being >mishandled on an epic scale by a government that wants to bring in the most >draconian ID card legislation on the planet. What is going astray is copies >of the data being transferred between departments or other agencies. The >government still has the data but now, potentially, does every crook in the >world. Thaqt is not how it is being reported by Sky News, which has consistently reported about "lost data" and the "loss of records", which clearly implies that the government no longer has the information. I seem to recall that they broadcast an appeal to people who had booked driving tests to contact the testing agencies, indicating that the testing agencies had actually lost the data. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: hayesmstw@hotmail.com (see web page if it doesn't work) Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/famhist1.htm http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/