The British government lost personal records on every family with a child under 16.
The British government lost data with personal information on every UK family with a child under 16. DrunkenData passed on this story from the BBC.
Every family with a child under 16!
Get used to it folks! Data’s created or used for more and more of…everything, and its value (and sensitivity) is multiplying. It’s as if the money we carry around in our wallets went from $50 to $5,000. The wrong place to keep such valuable stuff, right? Not so different from mailing personal data for every family with a kid through the UK postal system. Lots of room for “oops”es.
There will be many more of these kinds of mistakes until we collectively figure out what to replace that data wallet with.
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