These sorts of things seem to be in the news almost daily now but when are things going to get to a point where it becomes a legal requirement to actively have a system in place to protect customer data? It almost seems now it's become accepted that peoples private data is going to be lost at some point and that is inevitable. Obviously some government departments are as guilty (if not more so) than private firms so maybe that is what is holding up the need for this legistlation?
Here's some more stories that have been appearing in the news that you may have missed!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/20/virgin_media_banking_loss/
http://www.epolitix.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/government-accused-over-new-data-loss/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/hsbc_hk_data_loss_snafu/
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/stuart_king/2008/05/data-loss-epidemic.html (interesting read)
And something a bit closer to home which is something that could potentially happen to anyone :-
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