HM Revenue/Customs lost data procedures 'woeful' Is that report accurate? Or what? If 'no', R U a spin doctor?

Question

Procedures for handling sensitive data at HM Revenue and Customs are "woefully inadequate", an inquiry has revealed.

Staff worked on confidential data without adequate support, training or guidance with a "muddle through" ethos, investigators found.

The findings were contained in an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report into the loss of CDs holding the personal records of 25 million people.

Investigators said no individuals were to blame for the security breach that took place when the CDs were lost in internal post.

Instead the Government agency was accused of wholesale failings in "institutional practices and procedures" concerning data.

Officials were so ignorant about data security that when the CDs were lost, they simply sent another set from their Tyne and Wear offices.

It was three weeks before an employee reported the loss, setting in motion a chain of events that led to a national outcry.

The CDs contained a complete record of ... OOPS !!!

Answer 1

Look at it this way:

Over the last few months: tax data, family credit data, and social security data have supposed to have gone missing.  There have been no public enquiries, no publicised sackings and it leaves more questions than answers.

Recently, a lap top and some documents are supposed to have been miss laid.  Someone "conveniently" found them and handed them in to the BBC.  Yeah.  Right.

I don't believe a word that's being spun.  It's all designed to panic people so the government can push through even  more legislation to further erode civil liberties.

Abraham Lincoln said:  "You can fool some of the people, all of the time, and you can fool some of the people part of the time.  But you can't fool all of the people all of the time".

I think that about sums up this situation here.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If you add all the Civil Sevants thst are needlessly employed to all those claiming Disabiltiy benefit to those actually registered as unemployed -

we have a crisis.

Answer 4

1. Yes.

2. No I'm not.