After attending yesterday’s Eurim roundtable meeting on Information Governance, I think it will take a catastrophic data leakage disaster to shake the UK out of data governance complacency.
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Photo credit: gregbender.com Tech-savvy kids are using 21st Century excuses for failing to hand in homework assignments, according to Joanna Sugden writing in The Times My favourite from the list of inventive excuses? “The PC exploded when our dog went to the toilet on it.” This article led me to wonder if workers regularly try to blame technology for failing to Continue reading article » The proliferation of “mashups” (software services created by combining disparate components into a new configuration) shows that they are becoming increasingly popular and have already entered the Enterprise domains. Some of these are not only useful but also fairly quick to develop and deploy. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. The facility of mashup development and deployment must Continue reading article » We cannot stop data blunders says Gordon Brown. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, appears to have surrendered to the problem of government data leakage, despite growing public concern about the regularity of serious failures by public bodies to safeguard sensitive personal data. I propose to send Mr Brown a copy of my summary of practical measures that might help the government fight Continue reading article » Although public sector data losses might get the most press coverage, the problem undoubtedly affects the private sector too; we just don’t always get to hear about their mishaps. Nevertheless, the UK Government appears to be highly susceptible to losing sensitive data and, with each freshly reported loss, public confidence drops another notch or two. A lost memory stick was Continue reading article » |
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