Businesses and public sector organisations need to treat personal data "with the same care and respect as nuclear waste - it is dangerous, long-lasting and once it has leaked there's no getting it back."
Writing in the Guardian, cory doctorow argues that the levels of personal data now being stored by businesses makes it imperative for the government to introduce legislation to protect the public from data losses like the recent HM Revenue & Customs debacle.
He says, "Our capacity to store, copy and distribute information is ascending a curve that is screaming skyward, headed straight into infinity. The world's toughest privacy measures are as a wet Kleenex against the merciless onslaught of data acquisition. Data is acquired at all times, everywhere."
Mr Doctorow concluded by saying that, in addition to making it obligatory for personal data to be kept secure for a period of around 150 to 200 years, both the public and private sectors should be held responsible for any losses. |
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