Cheers Alistair et al!
My jaw just hit the floor. I read on the BBC website that some complete retards in government sent out by post the personal data of 25 million families receiving child benefit on two discs, which were subsequently lost. The article reports that the data contains: “parents’ and children’s names, addresses, dates of birth, child benefit and national insurance numbers and in some cases, bank or building society details”. Oh. Great! So, some form of secure, recorded post didn’t seem sensible then?
Alistair Darling insists that we are not all in danger of identity fraud.
Are you a complete moron Alistair?
With a name, date of birth, NI number, address and some bank details it’s ludicrously easy to commit identity fraud. Frankly, with that kind of information, your average household pet could get a few credit cards and loans.
What is the point in having a Data Protection Act if the government responsible for policing it is completely incapable of following their own rules? Perhaps you should have just flogged all the data Alistair - then maybe you could recoup some of the £24 billion of tax payers’ money you’ve given to Northern Rock in the past 3 months.