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              MoD lost 11,000 military ID cards
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The personal details of some 25 million child benefit claimants were lost by HM Revenue and Customs staff last year and in January a laptop containing the private data of 150,000 Armed Forces applicants was stolen from the car of a Royal Navy officer. And with the new revelation that 4,433 ID cards went missing in 2006 and a further 6,812 disappeared last year, government plans to improve national security by imposing a national ID card database are likely to come in for further criticism. In a statement, the MoD said: “We take the loss of military ID cards very seriously, and we are taking steps to improve general security awareness. “Military ID cards form one part of the security measures we have in place. They have photographic ID on them, so it would be difficult for them to be used by individuals they have not been assigned to.” Conservative party defence spokesman Gerald Howarth said the MoD’s disclosure was “another example of the government’s scandalous disregard for the security of our citizens and yet another reason why the public has no confidence in the government’s ID card plans for the rest of the population”. Have Your Say: MoD lost 11,000 military ID cards Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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