For nine months last year, government officials secretly scrambled to find missing DNA samples, bank details and passport applications, which they had lost on a flight from Afghanistan.
The incident is one of thousands of data losses that took place in the first year of the Coalition government.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) suffered by far the most losses, with 1,807 personal data incidents. They included 154 losses which happened inside the the department’s own secured premises, and more than a thousand ‘unauthorised disclosures’.
An MoJ report admitted there has been a ‘significant increase’ in data loss, but claimed: “This is largely the consequence of increased levels of reporting.’ Full story...
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The incident is one of thousands of data losses that took place in the first year of the Coalition government.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) suffered by far the most losses, with 1,807 personal data incidents. They included 154 losses which happened inside the the department’s own secured premises, and more than a thousand ‘unauthorised disclosures’.
An MoJ report admitted there has been a ‘significant increase’ in data loss, but claimed: “This is largely the consequence of increased levels of reporting.’ Full story...
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