Setec Astronomy
Props to the chaps at Spyblog for chasing down just what a dog’s breakfast MI5/the Home Office managed to make of the new Terror Alert email system:
Astonishingly, MI5, the Security Service, part of whose remit is supposed to be giving protection advice against electronic attacks over the internet, is sending all our personal details (forename, surname and email address) unencrypted to commercial third party e-mail marketing and tracking companies which are physically and legally in the jurisdiction of the United States of America, and is even not bothering to make use of the SSL / TLS encrypted web forms and processing scripts which are already available to them.
Is this evidence of a rush job, to satisfy the demands of the Home Office spin doctors or is it incompetence, or indifference to the privacy and security of the general public ?
They continue to chase here (when the spooks finally got their act together), here and here, and the story was picked up by the BBC.
Posted on January 15th, 2007 at 9:09pm under T.W.A.T., The home front, UK politics
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Seems to be a Prima Facie breach of the 8th Data Protection Principle:
Every day it gets a little worse, everyday the tide of idiocy washes a little higher on the shores of Great Britain, one day I fear we will no longer be able to call it GREAT Britain. Huff.
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Guido’s belated dance number comes to us a few days after the ‘boycott’ brand was first applied, rinsed and repeated – and the first thing you’ll notice is the cool, unshakeable exterior. Too bad about the ultra-paranoid level of moderation……
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