Political risk of big databases

[Caspar Bowden]

So I'll push the boat out and suggest MPs may be a tad more interested in information privacy/security matters in  future...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/18/mps-expenses-how-scoop-came-light
"It sounds like a scene from the TV drama 24. A person unknown in a government office copies an entire terabyte of data from a classified computer to a portable hard drive, which is then whisked away from under the noses of colleagues and security alike and spirited out of Westminster.

That hard drive contains revelatory material - all the expense claims made by 646 members of parliament over the last five years. Two million documents in all, including copies of expense claim forms, handwritten comments scrawled in margins, even attached sticky notes.

For unexplained reasons, the hard drive and its data does not show up on any security manifest and Commons authorities are unaware of its existence. Time to call Fleet Street and cash in...."

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Caspar Bowden

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