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David T.S. Fraser, is a Canadian privacy lawyer who practices with the
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Friday, January 04, 2008
UK Committee calls for criminal penalties for data breaches
This is an interesting development. In response to the huge data breach in the UK (Canadian Privacy Law Blog: UK loses sensitive personal data on 25m people), the Parliamentary Justice committee is calling for criminal penalties for large data breaches. See: U.K. Needs Tougher Laws to Protect Private Data, Lawmakers Say - Bloomberg.com: U.K. & Ireland.
For some additional comments, see: IMPACT®: Data protection - more signs of unrest.
Labels: breach notification, europe, hmrc, privacy, uk
Saturday, November 24, 2007
More disks missing from HM Revenue and Customs
It's interesting what comes out when people start asking more questions: BBC NEWS Politics Six more data discs 'are missing'.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
UK loses sensitive personal data on 25m people
A lot of stuff I read about privacy incidents leaves me scratching my head in wonder. In thinking about the staggering number of privacy breaches coming out of governments (Canadian, US, UK, etc.), I wonder:
- Are we hearing about all these incidents because employees who handle personal information for governments are idiots?
- Are we hearing about all these incidents because governments are more likely to come clean when bad things happen?
- Are we hearing about all these incidents because citizens are more likely to go to the media?
- Are we hearing about all these incidents because governments handle such vast quantities of personal information, but statistically are no more likely -- per capita / per employee / per whatever -- to mishandle personal information?
I am thinking that it probably isn't #2.
The latest is from the UK. An employee of the Revenue & Customs sent CDs of unencrypted personal information about almost every child and parent in the UK via regular internal mail. The CDs never reached their destination. The minister responsible has admitted that this has occurred on multiple occasions. When are governments going to learn?
See: Taxman loses sensitive personal data on 25m people - Times Online, via UK tax-man repeatedly hemorrhages personal financial info of 25 MILLION Brits - Boing Boing.
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