Catastrophic Tuesday
As the full weight of the long and far reaching significance of the data protection failure becomes apparent, it only takes seconds to find who is actually to blame for this, a certain Gordon Brown. For it is he who preformed the shotgun wedding on HM Customs & Excise and Revenue in 2005. This cost-cutting exercise has now bitten back.
While all the papers ran front page today with this I think the FT summed it well.
"Mr Brown’s administration has failed in one of the first duties of government: to protect its citizens. Never mind breaches of data protection laws. Fraudsters armed with details of bank accounts, national insurance numbers, and the names of almost every child in the country could wreak identity theft havoc on an un-dreamed-of scale."
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