MoD lose 11,000 ID cards
Who are the most effective campaigners against ID cards? The government of course:
“According to MoD figures released in a Commons written answer, 4,433 ID cards disappeared in 2006 and a further 6,812 went missing last year. Tory defence spokesman Gerald Howarth said: “This is another example of the Government’s scandalous disregard for the security of our citizens and yet another reason why the public has no confidence in the Government’s ID card plans for the rest of the population.”
Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Nick Harvey said the figures were “just extraordinary” and made a mockery of the security procedures at military facilities. “This shows the inherent frailty of ID card schemes and is yet another proof that schemes, such as the ID card database, simply won’t improve our security against terrorism,” he said.”
WTF!
Is more public data being lost now than before or is there simply more reporting on the same frequency of these kind of incidences?
Is more public data being lost now than before
Before about 2005, apparently no-one ever lost or had stolen a CD-ROM, photo-ID card or passport.
I wonder what the big corporate interest is in stopping the ID card scheme? A sustained press campaign like this doesn’t come cheap. Might be interesting for someone to ferret around and see who is funding it.
i’m not quite sure why none of these news stories elaborate any further than …x went ‘missing’.. and boom everyone gets scared. I mean..are we really so naive as to think that unless something goes physically missing, there is generally – data security?
clearly we are.
the major criminals out there, know how to get things done electronically. You don’t have to ‘lose’ your credit card to have credit card fraud happen to you, for example. you don’t have to lose your ‘pin’ either.