Data Handling Procedures in Government: Interim Progress Report

[James Davis]

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Richard Clayton wrote:

> ... as ever, the key question isn't why someone thought it was sensible
> to leave a laptop in a car overnight; or even why there wasn't full disk
> encryption applied to it; but why someone has a need to have access to
> 600,000 records in the first place.
> 
> If the ICO started asking those sorts of questions, and serving notices
> to fix flawed system _designs_, then we might be getting somewhere.

Richard Thomas was on Radio 4 this morning and said they'll be looking
at why the MoD collected so much data, and why they thought it was
acceptable to place it on a laptop, before they consider any protection
that was placed on the data.

James

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