HMRC Archive
Well, I did say, when the government blamed the HMRC data loss on the failure of some junior member of staff to observe the rules, that if the truth were ever to emerge, it would be that HMRC suffered from …
I read in ComputerWeekly that the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee is to re-open its inquiry into e-crime and the security of personal data, apparently due to the Government’s “vacuous, idle and irrelevant” response to its initial recommendations. …
The UK government claimed that the person who burnt the HMRC child benefit database to a disc and mailed it to the National Audit Office (NAO) was a relatively junior civil servant who had breached rules and would be subject …
While one swallow might not make a summer, multiple breaches of one particular law (Information Commissioner: “we are already investigating two other breaches”) do rather suggest that the organization concerned has little interest in compliance with it. Her Majesty’s Revenue …
Not a sentiment you will often hear. However, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been rightly applauded over the matter of a stolen laptop. Not for the actual theft, of course, but for the security measures the laptop contained …
