Ben Russell writes in The Independent:
The Home Office contractor which lost a computer memory stick containing the details of 84,000 prisoners is at the heart of developing the Government’s controversial compulsory identity cards system.
PA Consulting – which on Tuesday told ministers it had misplaced the unencrypted names, dates of birth and expected release dates of [...]
Gerri Peev writes in The Scotsman:
The personal details of the entire prison population south of the Border have been lost in a massive security breach at the Home Office, it was revealed last night.
Information on tens of thousands of criminals – including expected release dates – was lost while private contractors hired by the government [...]
Douglas Fraser writes in the Glasgow Herald:
The next census will be the last of its kind under plans being drawn up for its replacement with a national population register.
The £500m census on March 27, 2011, will be the earliest in the year since the first Britain-wide survey in 1801, to avoid Easter and the Scottish [...]
According to Kablenet:
The Home Office will wait until 2011 to issue the ‘vast majority’ of identity cards to students and young people.
The schedule is outlined in A Strong New Force at the Border, a document issued by the department on 19 August detailing plans for the UK Border Agency. It places the work in 2011 [...]
Christopher Hope writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Sensitive data for more than four million people was lost by Government departments in the past year, on top of the high profile loss of child benefit records.
Following the loss of details for 25 million child benefit claimants in November, Whitehall departments have begun including information on personal information [...]
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