Do you trust the government to keep sensitive information ?

[Lamp]

Yet another security blunder by the government. God help us if ID cards are brought in...

Timeline:

17 June 2008
Sensitive government information stolen from laptop
BBC NEWS | Politics | Blears PC loss - officials blamed

15 June 2008
Sensitive government files found on train
BBC NEWS | UK | More secret files found on train

12 April 2008
MOD laptop stolen from McDonalds
BBC NEWS | UK | MoD laptop stolen from McDonalds

21 January 2008
Laptop with details of 600,000 people stolen
BBC NEWS | Politics | More MoD laptop thefts revealed

18 January 2008
Hundreds of documents with personal details found dumped at roundabout
BBC NEWS | England | Devon | Personal data found on roundabout

18 January 2008
Medical details of 4,000 patients lost
BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Lost medical data is kept secret

17 December 2007
Millions of Learner-driver details lost
BBC NEWS | Politics | Millions of L-driver details lost

28 November 2008
Personal details of 25,000,000 lost
BBC NEWS | Politics | Discs 'worth £1.5bn' to criminals

28 March 2000
Spy loses 2nd laptop
BBC News | UK | Second spy loses laptop

 

[tris-]

im starting to think its done on purpose to create news.

 

[Helme]

The Swedish goverment? yeah.

The British goverment I wouldn't trust my 2 year old expired bus pass with

 

[pikeh]

12 April
21 January



18 January
18 January
28 November
28 March

COINCEDENCE? I think not!

 

[Raven]

I blame the primates that voted that useless flock of wankers into power.


Mob rule sucks, stupid people shouldn't be given the vote.

 

[Huntingtons]

how would england then pick their government? :<

 

[Raven]

Oh i quite agree, living in the UK you are forced to put up with degenerates on a daily basis, only today I had some fuckwit that didn't know how to use a chip and pin machine to pay for his petrol...I was late for work at the time.

let the workers decide who is going to spend their taxes the rest can get what they are given.

 

[Huntingtons]

how about you get up earlier and stop whining?! HUH?!

 

[swords]

I had a guy who didn't know what an Irish coffee was the other day... he gave me an espresso with a short of jamesons in it... where the fuck is my whisky and coffee bitch?

 

[CorNokZ]

Irish coffee? Isn't that a punch in the face by a red-headed shepherd and then a cup of hot coffee thrown in your face?

 

[old.Tohtori]

I don't trust the government to get me to work on time, so why the hell would i trust it to do that?

 

[Hawkwind]

As much as I hate the current excuse for a government we have in the UK, most of the cock ups are actually attributed to their close neighbours in Whitehall. The unellected civil servants.

Security of personal, private and sensitive information needs a major overhaul in the UK Civil Service. None of this information should ever leave the building, whether on a laptop or printed documents. This is real basic ISM (Information Security Management) policy.

 

[razeredge]

28 November 2008
Personal details of 25,000,000 lost
BBC NEWS | Politics | Discs 'worth £1.5bn' to criminals

Definetly not if they're already planning on losing stuff next November

 

[Lamp]

Definetly not if they're already planning on losing stuff next November

Haha ! Yes. This Labour government is so appallingly dismal at running the country (and I use the word "running" in its loosest possible context) that your money would be safe at a turf-accountants if you were to bet on another serious security cock-up in the next 3 months

 

[BloodOmen]

Trust the government? I wouldn't trust them with a piece of bog roll i've just wiped my arse on let alone sensitive info.

 

[tris-]

it should be them trusting us not vice versa since they are supposed to be our slave.

 

[Binky the Bomb]

I wouldn't trust the government with FALSE information, let alone REAL details.
Thing is, they want everyone to have the national ID card to secure your data... except for when they take public transport. Or private transport. Or locked in a filing cabinet. Or securing it with a top spy.

The printed word makes a digital solution to data loss a complete and utter shambles.