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Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged
E5Rebel writes "The UK's data protection watchdog has called for legislation that would punish corporate or government officials with access to the public's personal data ... who lose it. Unencrypted laptops with this personal information which are lost or stolen will see their owners facing criminal charges. 'HM Revenue and Customs is among the organisations that have recently suffered high profile data security breaches as a result of laptops being lost or stolen. The HMRC laptop containing taxpayer data was encrypted - but other organisations have often failed to encrypt their machines.'"
What a vague rant. Near as I can tell, you disagree with punishing people who break the law, think that when people break the law there's "no recourse", and confuse media hysteria over gun crime with the actual facts (the whole of the UK has about fifty fatal shootings per year, hardly a crime wave).
Did you actually have a point, or did you just want to rant against the English? Do you even know the difference between England and the UK? I see no reason to single out the English for UK policies.