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Story: Health trust loses 6,000 prisoners' data on USB stick
Does it even need to be said
This is undoubtedly a bunch of health professionals under ridiculously tough working conditions, working every day with potentially dangerous patients with in many cases little or nothing to lose. They weren't properly briefed by their management on the security issues, apparently. However, at the end of the day, the data got loose and could easily cause severe problems.
There are always going to be corner cases like this.
How many more times does this sort of thing need to happen before the government realise that they NEED to listen to the non-self-appointed-experts on this subject. Just because they are the ones in charge, doesn't automatically qualify them as experts in the field. Just because the advice that comes from the actual experts is so frightfully inconvenient, doesn't mean they can ignore it along with all the other inconvenient facts they routinely toss out with the rubbish.
This seems to me to be another case of "Policy is Truth". The bureaucratic disease that allows arbitrary policy to be ennobled with the mantle of absolute truth. Once done, this truth then pushes out all inconvenient facts that stand against it. The "Truth" in this case is that the government needs to hold chapter and verse on each and every one of us in a huge set of databases and that nothing else is more important than that; freedom, liberty, privacy and all other outmoded concepts be damned.
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