NO2ID

We need a Data Loss sub-forum!!

Or perhaps just for "data loss" to be deemed off-topic UNLESS the story explicitly mentions ID cards or data-sharing. There are tens of thusands of such incidents, most of which are politically as well as logically inconsequential to NO2ID's business.

(Shouldn't this thread be in the suggestions forum?)

Moderation: It is now.

All accounts of public data lost from government IT systems in the UK are relevant to ID Cards and the NIR because - by the particular way in which the data was lost in each situation, the amount of data lost and the type of data lost - they illustrate the problems people will face when the ID Card system goes live.

Loss of government data recently has spurred many people to look at ID cards more closely. A thread for data loss would not be out of place on this forum and would enable us to keep track of just how serious the problem is and to demonstrate that to others.

The same goes for IT system failure resulting in databases closing down such as happened to US banks last year.

Justin.

I would have thought that is the point - incidents of data loss would not be that relevant at all to No2ID apart from the fact that they all imply the likelihood of data sharing - on a mass scale and with persons and organisations unknown.

If you look at a lot of the comments in places like BBC Talking Point, you will see people saying "I was for/wasn't against ID cards before this" (in this fiasco as well as the CD's lost in the post).

I think it is making many people think about this sort of thing for the first time, or making them re-evaluate already held opions.

So it is relevent.

It might be interesting or enlightening for the general public, but not valuable information for people coming to this forum.

If material that is OT is allowed we will drown in it. And that subverts the forum as much as plain spam. See the "civil liberties" parking place and "moderated" forum for the things people have thought appropriate to post.