Wednesday, November 21, 2007

25 million exposed to risk of ID fraud - Times Online

Absolutely amazing story.

The Tory MPs had a field day grilling government on why they did not comply with data privacy laws (although they starved the transportation and anything public from funds for 30 years). Politics aside, this shows the risk associated with collecting personal information: you're never sure which moron will cock up. As far as I am concerned, I think details including bank account numbers should be as guarded as nuclear codes: double key system, third party code encryption, etc...

25 million exposed to risk of ID fraud - Times Online

Laura is going to call me Jason Bourne again but anyway this is another good reason to have several bank accounts and password systems....


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