More Data is Lost

Can we have our driving test data back please?

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

The continuing saga of lost government data in the UK.

[theregister.co.uk...]

[londrum]

is it too much to ask that they lose all our parking tickets too?

[surrealillusions]

i hope they lose everything to do with speed cameras, parking fines, basically anything to do with taxing motorists off the road.

:)

[Old_Honky]

I think the media are making too much of all this, the data included : Names , addresses, telephone numbers, driving test number.

All information that's either available in the public domain (telephone directories) or no use at all for stealing your ID.

Who gives a toss?

Let's get back to interesting news like the Spice Girls and gold plated piccies of Paris Hilton. :~}

[Habtom]

...interesting news like the Spice Girls and gold plated piccies of Paris Hilton.

If I am not diverting the topic, you brought up an issue which i can't understand totally. Why are they on the news?

[Old_Honky]

I was trying to make an ironic comment about the British media who seize on non-stories like the "spice-slags" comeback tour and the fact that some heiress who used to do pron is now reduced to painting herself gold for publicity photos for some product or other. What with that and the dreadful X factor and other "un-reality" TV programs there seems to be precious little coverage of any real news. For all I know we could have been invaded by the axis of evil and the Queen's head is stuck on a pole outside Balmoral. I doubt if that would get as much coverage as the Spice Girls seem to get.

To get back to the topic I think the "data theft" is also a big non-story, which has been blown up by the media especially the BBC; Newsnight the other night was appalling. I suspect there is a hidden agenda (anti-identity cards)

[engine]

Without getting political about this, any data loss or theft is bad news. The fact that the information is less sensitive is irrelevant.

Protecting the data should be the priority, otherwise, one day, it will be more sensitive information being lost.

Oh, hey, didn't that already happen! ;)

[LifeinAsia]

Why can't someone in the government lose the Spice Girls and Paris Hilton?

[Essex_boy]

They do but they keep getting returned.

[Habtom]

is it too much to ask that they lose all our parking tickets too?

No, that is too sensitive.