Personally should any of my hard earned cash or my families go disappearing from my bank account i shall hold the govt and it's incompetent employees wholly responsible!
2007-11-20 22:09:55 · 8 answers · asked by Andrew1968 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Personal Finance
Well you are correct, I think and in law the Government is possibly liable. However they could say the some of the information, like bank account details is given freely by the people.
They have a responsibility to protect personal data, much like any company has to do legally with employee records. The questions to be asked now are ...
who authorised the use of such a delivery service for such highly secretive documents (they should be fired)
who actually used the service before switching brain on (they should be fired)
and who is responsible for the system (they should go)
The country now needs to decide if the Government should go. Those who think its a Gov problem they should urge their MPs to vote NO confidence in the government REGARDLESS of party politics .. this falls outside of that. Any MP who fails to support his / her electorate should be punished with non re-election or asked to resign now which is the better option.
But lets not think the labour MPs would say anything bad against their government ... perish the thought! They are on the gravy train ... bet they have new accounts already .. probably yesterday!!
2007-11-20 22:26:17 · answer #1 · answered by John B 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The banks will cover everyone against fraud arising from this, its part of the banking code. However, it is inconvenient though as it will mean you will be without the money fraudulently used for a while, but you will get it back.
The situation isn't as bad as its made out, its bank details that are missing rather than card details. If it was card details, then people could use the details to order online etc. However, with bank details they can only use them to fraudulently aquire cards etc which is a bit harder.
It is a shambles though, its such a massive problem and should never of been allowed to happen. Hopefully it will be the final nail in labours coffin, although on the other hand I would love to see labour go, but theres no one decent to replace them, all the current parties are as bad as each other.
Hopefully though it will change things in the banking industry, as the way card fraud is dealt with is appalling. With it opened up on such a major scale new practices should be brought in.
2007-11-21 00:55:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I loathe the belief of identification enjoying cards, regardless of the shown fact that it is not the identification enjoying cards that are a undertaking, it somewhat is the national identification sign in which will carry each and each and each and all the education on each and each physique it somewhat is the terrifying factor. In April next 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, the known sign in place of labor, which registers births marriages and deaths interior the united kingdom, may well be merged with the identification and Passport service, who will finally safeguard identification enjoying cards. So there will be no escaping from it, as at as quickly as as a infant is born they'll bypass onto this massive database, for some thing of their lives. i'm in no way tender with the government having the means to criminalise people who come to a call they do no longer want to open up the full of their inner optimal lives to a first authority and politicians they do no longer have faith. by way of fact the lacking CD's with each and each and each and all the education approximately newborn earnings has shown, the bigger the database, the bigger the prospect whilst 'errors' happen. i'm no longer a terrorist or a violent criminal, so i do no longer see why i might want to be dealt with like one.
2016-10-17 14:39:30 · answer #3 · answered by holtzer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it appears that there was a 'data breach' in the UK, from what I gather from these posts. I've given up on worrying about such situations any more. I'm in the US, and we have the same scenarios over here, although I can't recall any one instance as large as what you folks describe.
Recently, a medical records processing firm mistakenly left OPEN on the internet (no secure access required) the medical records of about a half million folks. Took them a day or two to discover what had occurred, and no one knows whether or not any of the records were stolen and accessed.
Welcome to the era of digital information !
2007-11-20 22:41:02 · answer #4 · answered by acermill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I certainly am worried. As though identity fraud isn't rife enough as it is! The one area in which I have no alternative other than to supply confidential information, i.e. Inland Revenue, cannot be responsible enough to protect me from id fraud! This country has well and truly gone to the dogs. "Proud to be British" - in reality, we're all embarrassed!
2007-11-20 22:30:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm sure most people will be worried. And its 25 million people. Lets just hope the CD hasn't got into the wrong hands and it turns up
2007-11-20 22:17:41 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would be stupid NOT to be worried! I wonder if people who have their benfit paid by book (& not into their account)are worried though? Surely their bank details won't exist on computer.
2007-11-20 22:15:04 · answer #7 · answered by tedrfandthedog 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have these guys never heard of secure data transfer, and how do they send their normal mail? "PIGEON"...muppets..of course this is worrying!
2007-11-20 22:29:19 · answer #8 · answered by tickytacky 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋