Given all of the attention on the banning of Web sites in the UK (read Wikipedia / Scorpions album), we thought we’d give you the inside view on how it comes about.
The setup
If a member of the public raises an objection to a Web site to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the IWF takes a look at it to judge if it’s objectionable (btw – they’re one of the few bodies in the UK legally allowed to view the child pr0n)
Here’s another tale of UK data loss that has to be one for the “You couldn’t make it up” files.
An Englishman has bought a Nikon Coolpix camera from eBay for £17 that had lots of secret information stored on it.
According to The Sun, list is considerable.
Although The Sun isn’t explicit — not surprisingly, as why would they confuse their readers — it appears that other data was held on the memory card, but not as photos. These include names, snaps, fingerprints and suspects’ academic records.
Special Branch attention
Having realising what he had, the eBay purchaser reported his findings to the police where he lived, at Hemel Hempstead.
Despite the officers apparently not taking it seriously, the anti-terrorist Special Branch officers turned up at his home and removed the camera and the computer that the pictures had been downloaded to – giving them £1,000 to buy a replacement.
It’s reported that investigation are being made into the seller of the equipment.
It’s starting to feel like we could almost start a new site _just_ about data loss in the UK.
The latest is West Midlands Police who are reported as having lost a 4GB USB memory stick containing unencrypted classified information about suspected terrorists.
Yet another UK Government data loss story today.
Today’s is the loss of the names, dates of birth and, in some cases, the expected prison release dates of all 84,000 prisoners in the UK.
As well as this shocking amount of data, there was more held on the memory stick that it’s reported that PA Consulting lost.
PA Consulting have also worked on the proposed ID Card project.
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