There were warnings today that the taxpayer may face a multi-million pound bill after the loss of a computer disk carrying personal details of thousands of employees of the National Offender Management Service - many of whom are prison officers and probation workers. Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, ordered an urgent inquiry after it was revealed that the hard drive was reported missing in July. He has also demanded to be told why he was not informed immediately of the loss. EDS, a private contractor brought in to to overhaul IT infrastructure seven years ago, told the Prison Service in July this year that the hard drive had gone astray - a year after the missing disk had last been seen. In a statement, Mr Straw said: "I am extremely concerned about this missing data. I was informed of its loss at lunchtime today (Saturday) and have ordered an urgent inquiry into the circumstances and the implications of the data loss and the level of risk involved.
There were warnings today that the taxpayer may face a multi-million pound bill after the loss of a computer disk carrying personal details of thousands of employees of the National Offender Management Service - many of whom are prison officers and probation workers.
Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, ordered an urgent inquiry after it was revealed that the hard drive was reported missing in July. He has also demanded to be told why he was not informed immediately of the loss.
EDS, a private contractor brought in to to overhaul IT infrastructure seven years ago, told the Prison Service in July this year that the hard drive had gone astray - a year after the missing disk had last been seen.
In a statement, Mr Straw said: "I am extremely concerned about this missing data. I was informed of its loss at lunchtime today (Saturday) and have ordered an urgent inquiry into the circumstances and the implications of the data loss and the level of risk involved.
Is there money to be made losingselling them?
I've met this in companies where I work. People define standards that are impractical if the job is to be done, which create logjams that themselves become problematic. Rather than simply acknowledge that the idea was stupid in the first place, management impose yet more impractical procedures. The result is that people end up either ignoring basic data security or not getting anything done.
And the worst thing you can do is tell the management why their ideas won't work. Because they then assume you're working against them and accuse you of sabotaging their great idea. And even when they and the whole world know it was a stupid scheme, they won't change it because they' know they;d lose face to staff if an underling could say "I told you so".
Course it would be nice if management were open to staff suggestions, but this is Britain and management demand the right to damage. keep to the Fen Causeway
this is Britain
Not only. This is Planet Earth.
