Home Office features in yet another data blunder
Posted on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 by Home Office WatchCategory: Uncategorized
Another 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.”
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September 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 am
Another misleading article: the reports say that Home Office sent the data out encrypted, but PA, having decrypted it, allowed someone in their organisation to copy it in the clear to the memory stick. But then PA ape govt in separating management from technical, so, like govt, management hasn’t a clue what’s really going on, and doesn’t know how to make it happen properly.
But at least your HO watcher has woken up - where has he/she been for so long? Makes me wonder if LDs want to participate in govt or are just a waste of time (my great grandfather, a C19 Liberal activist according to oral family history, must be turning in his grave).