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“The UK government’s data protection minister did not know about the huge data breach at HM Revenue and Customs until he heard the chancellor’s statement in the Commons on November 20, he has admitted.”
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“UK banks could end up spending £250 million dealing with the aftermath of the recent loss of computer disks containing bank account and other personal data belonging to about 25 million people, says Gartner.”
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incendiary stuff.
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Lauren is definitely chief troublemakers (CTM) right hand…
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Lauren Cooney says:
November 30, 2007 at 1:23 am
James, you know me too well. 🙂
Look forward to chatting with you guys next week. /LC
OpenDS: On Being Bitten By The Hand That Once Fed You « The Wayward Word Press says:
November 30, 2007 at 7:40 pm
[…] by daveshields on November 30th, 2007 I noticed, courtesy of a link from Redmonk’s James Governor, about the latest brouhaha from Sun in matters open-source. James’s comment was that this was […]
dave shields says:
November 30, 2007 at 8:18 pm
James,
Indeed incendiary, but there is a way for Neil to “byte back”:
http://daveshields.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/opends-on-being-bitten-by-the-hand-that-once-fed-you/
thanks,dave
Andrea says:
December 6, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Regarding your link about the UK data breach, Ade McCormack has an interesting angle on this in his most recent Financial Times column, which discusses the entwinement of IT and business processes. You can get a link to the article and have a chance to have a discussion with Ade in his blog post “It’s time for the IT industry to grow up” http://ademccormack.typepad.com/itvalue/2007/11/welcome.html
It would be interesting to see if you agree.