Blog move

Hi Folks,

I’ve no longer got the time to keep up with the many and varied data breach and related stories so i’m not going to attempt to do so – there are plenty other sites doing a great job on this see Open Rights Group for one.

Meantime, i’ll be blogging on VRM and related issues at Right Side Up.

Cheers

Iain

£80 for a UK identity

according to this BBC article.

This is just culturally wrong….

The DVLA should not be doing this.

Now its The Government Gateway’s turn..

According to this BBC article.

I like the bit about it being inconceivable that the data lost could cause problems.

Surely it would be better to be inconceivable that such data could be lost in a pub car park in the first place!!!!

How strange, someone just e-mailed me their sales prospect list…

….by mistake I assume.

I won’t embarass them by publishing the spreadsheet in which they talk about their approaches to different clients and likelihood of success.

…whodunnit? I won’t name names, but will say it was an accounting firm with the initials P, W and C in their name…

Two breaches on the one day…

It can’t be easy being in the military services these days; so why make it worse by doing this…

And just in case you thought it was all public sector, here’s one from Deloitte.

Government to spy on every call and email

Is there a worse way to spend £12bn than this?

Public must assert data rights…

absolutely……

Is it only Government who loses data at this rate?

Here’s another UK Government data breach.

At least we see that UK.gov recognises the obligation of exposure; but are we supposed to believe that breaches are not happening at the same rate in private sector? I think not. My experience is that many aspects of the private sector are even more culturally flawed around personal data management than the public sector.

89% of Security Breaches Unreported

According to this article by Matt Flynn.