One piece of news regarding a data security breach is not being reported by the BBC, mind you at the moment if it isn't happening in Beijing then it probably isn't going to be reported at all. This news regards a memory stick containing the personal data of hundreds of children which has been stolen. Apparently parents of the children have been sent a letter by the BBC informing them that details such as the names, addresses, mobile phone numbers and dates of birth of children who applied to take part in a cookery show had been taken. Also on the disk were details of when the children and their parents would be away on holiday.
I presume that hard questions about data security and encryption will be asked by the BBC Newsnight team, maybe not. Any coverage at all of this story on the BBC?
It is about time that all these bodies stopped putting personal data on physical and portable media, as a matter of principle.
ReplyDeleteI don't, unless it's one of my full-encrypted offsite backups, and those and handed over to my trusted guardians to put in their safes or equivalent secure storage places.
Why is it that these supposedly professional outfits have such a caual approach to how they handle data, when even a private individual such as myself can and does do it several orders of magnitude better?