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Brown's poodle shows its teeth !!

By Ishkandar Posted Monday 28th January 2008 11:29 GMT

The Information Commissioner's Office is sanctioning M&S for lost data ?? What about the NHS, MoD, DVLA, et al ??

Not a peep form this poodle when the big dogs were around !!

Gosh, so many comments

By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 28th January 2008 11:46 GMT

See, it's not just government departments that are careless with their laptops. I forsee BCrypt having a bumber year.

Private vs Public Sector

By Norm DePlume Posted Monday 28th January 2008 12:48 GMT

I think the TJX fiasco more than proved the private sector's capabilities in this field. It's just that, generally speaking, when it comes to monumental cock-ups you can't beat a government department.

@Ishkandar

By Tom Chiverton Posted Monday 28th January 2008 12:54 GMT

"Information Commissioner's Office is sanctioning M&S for lost data ?? What about the NHS, MoD, DVLA, et al "

Because government departments are exempt from the data protection act (and common sense, apparently). Can't see that law changing, with the current government, can you ?

If...

By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 28th January 2008 12:55 GMT

**The ICO wants the power to carry out spot checks on private companies and government departments when it suspects data protection is not being carried out properly**

That puts most of our government departments in the sh*t then.