Home Office features in yet another data blunder
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Another day, another large-scale data loss by the Government, this time featuring the Home Office and its contract PA Consulting. A memory stick was loaded up with the following, and then lost:
- Information on around 10,000 prolific offenders
- Information on 30,000 people from the Police National Computer
- Information on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales
The prolific offenders information (and possibly the others) was also unencrypted.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg’s view? “Charlie Chaplin could do a better job running the Home Office than this Labour Government.”
