BCS: data breaches have eroded public trust
Posted by Glyn in Data Protection, Privacy at April 30th, 2008
Via ZDNet Tom Espiner writes
The British Computing Society has criticised the government, claiming its high-profile data breaches have eroded public trust.
On Tuesday the BCS published the results of a survey of members of the public. Of the 1,025 respondents, 66 percent said their trust in government departments had decreased due to information breaches such as the loss of 25 million personal records by HM Revenue & Customs last year.
…”People inside the public sector know [it] is not terribly surprising that [breaches such as HMRC's] happened, but for people outside the public sector this was a huge shock.”
