Data 'Protection'

It appears those caped crusaders of law and order, Lothian & Borders Police, the Keystone Kops of all the police forces, are in the news, for all the wrong reasons, yet again.

They've gone and lost their wee memory stick with a shedful of unencrypted data on it;they actually admit to "...750 entries on vehicles "of interest" to police...", but it's the "...along with 'other' intelligence..." bit that concerns me most, although intelligence isn't a word that is applied to Lothian & Borders Police very often!

Somehow I don't feel that putting confidential data onto an unencrypted memory stick really shows much 'duty of care' towards that information. Perhaps if they hadn't spent £120k on a new logo last year, or sent dozens of their goons to harass the Sheridans, they'd have more resources to allocate towards data security!