Why is the Government so careless with our persona

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Why is the Government so careless with our personal data?

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/yourview/1576002/Why-is-the-Government-so-careless-with-our-personal-data.html

The personal details of 600,000 people interested in joining the Armed Forces have gone missing after a laptop belonging to a Royal Navy officer was stolen from a car in Birmingham.

The theft follows the loss of 25 million child benefit records and the details of three million learner drivers in the past few months.

Why is the Government - or its employees - so careless with our personal data? What do these incidents say about the culture of the civil service and, now, the military?

Is incompetence to blame, as Gordon Brown suggested about one of his ministers in a different context this week, or is there some deeper, underlying reason for such breaches of security?

Do you trust the state with your personal data? Should the Prime Minister abandon plans for compulsory ID cards - right now?

[izzy]

they probably want to engineer the situation so that we all agree that it would be much safer to have all the information on a chip or an ID card and we virtually beg them for it .

[w1nstonsm1th84]

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Exactly... and the sheeple will plead to be 'saved'...

[Anders Lindman]

they probably want to engineer the situation so that we all agree that it would be much safer to have all the information on a chip or an ID card and we virtually beg them for it .

And the implantable microchips will have non-lethal tazers in them. In that way criminal activity can be stopped in time thereby increasing personal and national security. Non-lethal means that it will only kill a person less than 20% of the time. The microchips will be fail-safe so that only 1 in 1000 persons can accidentally be tazered by their own implanted microchip.