Posted Thursday 26th July 2007 18:38 GMT
How many more?
Just how many more of these "inadvertent" releases of sensitive data are we going to see before the Government acknowledges that keeping lots of sensitive data in one place is A BAD IDEA? These things are honeypots. The riff-raff will keep on coming back to them until they get away with the goodies.
NHS NPfIT, IPS Nat ID Register, DVLA Driving Licence Register, big company HR records (must contain copies of passport or similar to prove entitlement to work). The sort of abuse described in this article in one of these database systems will destroy the lives of innocents caught up in the drive to record everything about everyone.