Not Even the Criminals Are Safe

Britain is focus on becoming a “Surveillance Society”. Information is collected on citizens and entered on various data bases. Unfortunately, Britain is not efficient in safeguarding those data. In another breach of security, this time a data base of criminals cannot be found:

“The British government says a computer memory stick with information on every prison inmate in England and Wales — plus the home addresses of tens of thousands of other criminals — has gone missing.

It is unclear whether the easily pocketed device was stolen by someone planning to use or disseminate the data or was just mislaid. Opposition politicians said taxpayers could end up paying damages to criminals who seek compensation because their privacy was breached.”

link: Oops! Device with data on 127,000 British criminals goes missing

It is such an irony but the criminal population - those in prison - may have legal grounds to seek legal compensation because their security and privacy have been breached. Not even criminals are safe. Not even Lewis Carroll could imagine such lunacy.

Catherine Forsythe