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Story: Darling blames officials for data loss

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Blaming junior officials not good enough

The problem is not simply that "instructions and procedures" were not followed; how did a junior official have access to the entire database, let alone clearance to download it all and burn it onto disk? Surely this sort of privileged access should only be available to inspectors and above. Whoever set the access rights for user names and passwords also has a lot to answer for.

And a further question; is this sort of ready access to our information mirrored in other Government agencies?

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