Quite apart from the failure of HMRC, I feel the media treatment has been pretty shoddy. There was 20 minutes of shock-horror stuff on 'PM' today, and the Secretary to the treasury was there - but not once was anyone asked Was the data encrypted? If not, why not? Was it passworded? If so, who decided on the password? Who knew it? and how was the password conveyed from A to B?
Why did the BBC not ask these relevant questions?
And why was the data being transferred anyway? What was it the audit commisiion was doing that meant they needed to know my bank account details, birthdate and other personal data? When we hand these data over, it is often udner duress but for specific purposes only.
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
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