[Toby Stevens] The Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency has admitted the loss of 3m drivers' details . Whilst the data itself is claimed to not be as sensitive as that lost in the HMRC incident, it is certainly another humiliating blow for public confidence in government processing of personal information.

With the HMRC incident, the real issue was why were the unencrypted CDs allowed to exist in the first place? In this case, the question that springs to mind is what were the details of 3m British drivers doing on a hard disc in a facility in Iowa? And had any form of risk assessment been conducted at all? I guess this will provide yet more work for the O'Donnell/Thomas/Walport reviews... 

(These views are the author's own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Enterprise Privacy Group's Member organisations)

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