Says the FT:
Two further laptops potentially carrying highly sensitive personal information about thousands of armed forces recruits have been stolen, Des Browne, defence secretary, admitted yesterday.
As Lynne Featherstone points out, these latest admissions shouldn’t surprise us: the MoD has been regularly losing laptops year after year, so by now they should really have started looking after personal data rather more carefully.
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Isn’t it sad that the media can’t even be bothered to run with stories about the government losing personal data anymore?
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Two (possibly stupid) questions: What are these laptops actually for, and why do they contain so much sensitive information?
The MoD is infamous for overstaffing, so it seems unlikely that these laptop owners are so hard-pressed that they need to work at home. I suspect the laptops are just a pointless perk that needed a ‘role’, hence they fill them with a filing cabinet’s worth of sensitive info.