Globalization at its finest. Three million records were lost back in May though the Iowa company did not think it was necessary to mention that fact.
The government yesterday revealed another disturbing loss of citizens' data when the transport secretary disclosed that a computer disc had gone missing that contained the records of more than 3 million driving test applicants, including their names, home addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers.(More after the jump.)
The disc was lost from a "secure store" in Iowa in the US midwest by private firm Pearson Driving Assessments in May, but this was not relayed either to Westminster or to the police.
Luckily enough for business in America (and elsewhere) there are hardly any repercussions for losing data by the truckload, so why even bother? When political leaders in Congress don't show any interest, including those running for President, why should they care?
While in the US visiting family recently, I was shocked to hear that both my mother as well as my sister had experienced credit card fraud in the last few years. (It happened to me more than 15 years ago, none since.) There was only one other adult at the table and so far he was OK but to find three out of the four at the table was amazing, though pretty much aligned with the statistics. NOTE FROM JOHN: My credit card number was stolen a month ago too.
