{"id":2053,"date":"2007-12-18T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T12:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/governments-cavalier-attitude-to-personal-data\/2053\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T12:22:24","slug":"governments-cavalier-attitude-to-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/governments-cavalier-attitude-to-personal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s &#8216;Cavalier attitude to personal data&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p t_LbT=\"true\" class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\">Commenting on yesterday\u2019s statement by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/publictechnology.net\/bizdirectory\/search_detail.php?ckey=21\">Department for Transport<\/a> Ruth Kelly on the loss of details of three million driving test candidates, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Susan Kramer MP said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p t_LbT=\"true\" class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p t_LbT=\"true\" class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\">\u201cThis is yet another appalling example of the Government\u2019s cavalier attitude to personal data. If my bank behaved like this I would change it &#8211; if only the general public were so fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can a Government with such a dismal record on this issue have the nerve to demand that we trust it to look after sensitive personal information on an <font color=\"#009900\" style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #009900! important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: static\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #009900! important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: relative\" class=\"kLink\">ID <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #009900! important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: relative\" class=\"kLink\">card<\/span><\/font> database?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government knew about this in May. If it hadn\u2019t been for the child benefits fiasco, how much longer would they have sat on the news? Is there anything else that they\u2019re keeping from us?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps it would save time if any departments that have not had major security breaches could let us know now.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p t_LbT=\"true\" class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p t_LbT=\"true\" class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\">Copyright Publictechnology.net <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on yesterday\u2019s statement by the Department for Transport Ruth Kelly on the loss of details of three million driving test candidates, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Susan Kramer MP said: \u201cThis is yet another appalling example of the Government\u2019s cavalier attitude to personal data. If my bank behaved like this I would change it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614],"tags":[37],"class_list":{"0":"post-2053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"tag-id-cards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}