The Revenue has managed to mislay vital personal information:
Around 15,000 Standard Life customers could be at risk of fraud after their personal details were lost by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
The data was on a CD sent from the Revenue office in Newcastle to the company’s headquarters in Edinburgh.
This is an agency of the same government that wants us to trust it with 51 items of extremely personal data. Trust and government are not words I would usually use in the same sentence. They have demonstrated time and again that they are thoroughly inept when it comes to technology and data management. Why should we trust them to manage our data? Simple answer; we should not. They are have neither the competence nor the integrity to be trusted.
HMRC and Standard Life have warned those at risk to be “vigilant”.
Yes, well, if the HMRC was even half competent, this wouldn’t be necessary, would it?
Incompetent, corrupt bastards, the lot of ’em, a pox on all their houses.