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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.'"
Instead of stating what is wrong, I will ask a question.
:) With lawmakers and enforcers like that, who needs enemies? No surprise though, they're going to make yet ANOTHER Malum Prohibitum, and nobody's going to stop them, cuz "Goddamit they're English and they're Damn Proud Of It!!"
Presume, for a moment that your data has been put on one of these laptops. Presume for a moment that this laptop is stolen. Now, the government quickly goes and blows that heavy cash they steal from everyone as taxes in suing and jailing and then FEEDING said miscreant with the bad business practices. You as a "customer" still have NO options, will probably never find out if your data was actually lost, or anything else. Would it not seem a bit more clever to actually punish those who actually LOSE the data? Easier access to lawsuits, less protections from corporate creations, etc? Company screws up, company pays, individuals pay half the bill, corpo pays the other half. Betcha if THAT is how it was done, we'd be done with lost laptops and lost data in a year or two tops. But again, why punish drunk drivers who run over someone, when you can nail'em all, raise lots of revenue for the state, and STILL provide NO recourse for those who are hit by drunk drivers OR anyone else for that matter. It ends up requiring a lawsuit anyways, so what the hell does the government do by jailing (housing and feeding) drunk drivers on my tab and yours? It doesn't stop them from doing it again... majority of drunk drivers tend to repeat their "misdeeds". Perhaps if they knew that it wasn't just a lottery but a true "your ass is grass if you hurt someone", it might put a different incentive into it.
Back to the article in question. It seems to me that these politicians in England, who are so well known for other fine working legislation (gun control, now knife control, myriad cameras covering every angle and yet robberies and home invasions are supposed to be at an all time high in London alone, and fear of "gun crime" is at a high, despite the fact that everyone who could be disarmed HAS been disarmed of everything but their teeth, fists and shoes, and cops are shooting disarmed and subdued Brazilian electricians in the head repeatedly... forget the queen, God save England
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
Me: I'm sorry officer, I forgot it was illegal to rob banks....
Cop: Well, OK - Just don't do it again.
(write-line *coolsig*)
Any nigger who wants a gun can get one. Lucky (for now) they're mainly shooting other niggers so why not let them get on with it?
Yes, damn then and there taxes, it doesn't cost that much to build a road, rail, telecommunication system. It is all just a joke.
If you ever happen to use the roads, or catch a train, or use a phone, or watch tv, why don't you think about how much it would cost you alone to build any one of those things. Even is you collected all the taxes you will pay in your lifetime, you wouldn't be able to afford a road to the next village. People like you are a joke. Fuck of then, and live in the forest, where you don't have or need to pay taxes.