Posted Monday 14th July 2008 20:44 GMT

Imagine how much personal data could be lost given one of these tapes.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/18/jc_penney_customer_data_lost/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/07/citigroup_lost_tape/

etc......

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David McLeman

My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords

Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps

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