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. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy>