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More missing data! 1.7 million people this time...

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Britain is the most watched nation on the planet, we all know the factoid that we get photographed up to 300 times a day and we seem to have made our peace with it. Our government now wants to store the details of every single communication you make, that includes telephone calls, instant message conversations, text messages and emails, and yet time and time again we let them get away with "losing" the private data they have sworn to protect.

This time they've lost the details of 1.7 million people who enquired to join the armed forces and early reports suggest that the data us unlikely to be encrypted.

"Lost" is a catch all term for stolen, sold, or traded, we have no idea what happens to this data since the government only has to say "we lost it" and that's that, someone calls for an investigation and we all get back to the slog. With a track record as bad as this, do you want more than 1000 local authorities anywhere near the details of every communication you have ever made?
phillyharper

7 responses // More missing data! 1.7 million people this time...

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Systems...
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    EDS at it again? Why do people use this company? There is a wiki, with their track record... 8 bullet points. Nice.

    abbym0308
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    http://www.financeweek.co.uk/item/5623
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    "On 2007-10-16, British TV company BSkyB claimed £709m compensation from EDS, claiming that EDS' failure to meet its agreed service standards resulted not just from incompetence, but from fraud and deceit in the way it pitched for the contract."

    EDS - getting it wrong since 2001.

    phillyharper
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    It's probably easier these days to try to work out who's data hasn't been stolen, lost or traded. Everyone else's information is 'out there.'

    toshiba
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    *sigh* again?? This is getting so commonplace it hardly feels like news anymore. Nonetheless, surely so many files mysteriously going missing like this is cause for more of an investigation than they currently seem to be bothering with?

    purplefox
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    hmmm

    thenumbertoo
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    fuck no!

    boredbrand
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    well I think the government holding any private data is a bit scary, unless it be to preserve your safety in some way. I don't see how IM Convos can keep you safe.

    Josh;)

    joshlewisimmons

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