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Humiliated government sets out to mend its data ways.
Byline: PW
Humiliated government sets out to mend its data ways
Peter Williams
Government failings on data protection have been laid bare in a series of official reports listing a catalogue of errors and incompetence. And the embarrassment for the government is set to continue as the Information Commissioner immediately promised to take enforcement action.
In a move to get the bad news over in one hit, the government published no fewer than four official reports simultaneously at the end of June.
The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, made a statement to parliament following the release of the Poynter Review into the loss of child benefit data discs by HMRC, and a report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) into the loss.
The discs contained the records of 25 million children and their parents, and have not been recovered.
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