Davey Winder
Wednesday, 09 July 2008 07:30
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The Committee also called for reporting procedures when
it comes to online fraud to be re-worked, pointing out that currently
victims of such fraud have to report the crime to their banks and not
the police in the first instance. Amazing, but true. When you consider
that banks may have a commercial incentive not to pass a report to the
police, you can see that the old duffers have hit upon another good
point. After all, the police may refuse to investigate an alleged fraud
if the bank does not support the claim in the first place.
And finally, following on from the HMRC data
disk scandal last year when the Government 'lost' the personal and
financial information of some 25 million people when the storage medium
went missing (after it was sent from one department to another using a
standard internal mail system against all existing codes and
regulations) the committee has called once more for a data security
breach disclosure law to be established.
This would require organisations to inform the public about the loss of
their personal data as soon as they become aware of that loss,
providing an incentive to increase procedures to make sure it doesn't
happen in the first place. Currently, with no such legal requirement,
companies and public bodies can attempt to cover up these breaches in
order to 'protect' their reputation.
Unfortunately, the old duffers made exactly the same recommendations
last year and they were pretty much either summarily dismissed or
ignored. I am not sure why they should think that Gordon Brown is going
to take any more notice now.
Find out what Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, Chairman of the Lords Science and Technology Committee says about the report...
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