Monday
26Nov2007
NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE!
Monday, November 26, 2007 at 12:49PM
You recall the absolute shambles from last week concerning the loss of the personal details of 25 million people by HMRC? Well, HMRC has subsequently written out to all those families concerned, assuring them that there is nothing to fear and that it is most unlikely that personal security has been compromised. My wife received this letter the other day and it arrived in an envelope that was not sealed. This meant that all the information INSIDE was freely available for anyone to see! They just get deeper and deeper in a mire of incompetence....
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So they mail some 7.5 million letters, to reassure people that everything is going to be fine, and there is no need to worry unduly. The totally duplicitous lying bunch of creeps! - of course there is a need to worry, unless, you are as stupidly careless as they are.
7.5 million letters at what - 20p each to post, isn't that some 1.5 million pounds - just in postage? - and all to save 5,000 pounds to edit the original database.
Talk about compounding on the original mistake with a further pointless gesture!
This is rapidly developing into the worst possible scenario, where the discs, and the others that missing, will not be found, and thus the future integrity of the database is forever blighted, as, while they are missing there is always the chance that they will, at some time, be used illegally. This is one problem that isn't going away any time soon...
These bureaucrats are unbelievably stupid, and heads - and pensions - should roll!..
Ernest,
Exactly. I was stunned to see the unsealed envelope with all our details available for all to see. Just proves you CANNOT trust the State. Ever.