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UK Government isn't trustworthy
Blimey, who'd have thought it?
Wed Mar 19 2008, 17:28
A SURVEY by Taunton-based Data Encryption Systems (DES) has come up with the startling conclusion that only one in ten UK citizens trusts The Man with personal data.
And when Home Secretary Jacqui Smith claimed on Radio 4 that the National Identity Databases would be impossible to hack into because they would be online, you can pretty much understand why.
That and the fact that last year alone nearly 37 million people had their personal data compromised by government negligence.
The DES survey, which polled over a thousand adults online, also found that almost as many people trusted online retailers as the denizens of Whitehall. µ
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You guys need your own Ron Paul to vote for and support. People here were too stupid to look into him and support him. They just vote for whoever the telly tells them to. But maybe you Brits have a little more going on upstairs.
I trust online retailers more than I trust HM Gov when it comes to data protection... Actually scratch that.. I trust retailer more than HM Gov on everything!

If a retailer looses your data (thinking credit cards here), their ability to process credit cards will be very swiftly pulled by their upstream provider. They'll loose you as a customer too. All of which is very bad for business.

If HM Gov loses your data, assume all of it, what happens? Some poor junior gets the boot, and HM Gov might say sorry. Can you pull their support? Nope, not unless it's an election year, and even then you'll just get the same muppets with a different colour rosette.
I just had a flash it was. Look here, do you trust giving your data to chaps who can't sing (or even successfully mime) "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau," the Welsh national anthem? Me neither... Alrighty, then, that Scottish secretary will have to do.