Probably Gaelic!

While the courier service TNT may be to blame for losing the data, this data was lost to Scotland as well.

So yes, Scotland lost it, it's just TNT's fault.

Way to go TNT!

Personally, if I were to represent Scotland I would definitely put all data transfer/protection so called "procedures" under the microscope.

If the data belongs to me & I give it to someone that lost it, I am partly to blame for making such a poor choice.

You know it strikes me that any reputable news site would at least attempt to get their story right. Scottish Ambulance service followed approved procedures and ensured the data was encrypted and unreadable by anyone other than authorised individuals. Hmmm, now only if the child benefit department had thought of that! Whether we like it or not, we do not have the broadband infrastructure to efficiently send very large files over the Internet so organisations like the Ambulance service have to courier discs from site to site. By encrypting the disc, they made sure that in the event that a normally reliable and secure courier company has a moment of incompetence, that the disc will be useless to anyone who finds it. 

Well done the Scottish Ambulance Service for I have no fears of the details of my emergency call I made to you earlier this year being used for identity fraud. Read on Mr Brown

as far as I am aware it was the carrier tnt who lost the parcel .....not Scotland

Well thanks for the tip off. 

Make note: Best not use TNT in future for sensitive deliveries.


P.S.
What is "industry-standard encryption?"
Would that be ZIP files or AES encryption algorithm with a 256-bit key? ;-)

Is there a web site that lists all these 'industry standards' we're suppose to use?

I wonder if the International Telecommunication Union knows about this? :-)


TNT have lost the disc Not the Scottish Ambulance Service.

It may not be such good headlines but getting it right would be good journalism