THERE SHOULD be a time when any government know they have got it wrong: that's there's been one mistake too many; that an ambition has ceased to be achievable and has become a policy burden. For the Labour government under Gordon Brown, that limit has been reached on one key issue: identity cards. The pretence should now stop. This government are incapable of setting up, running and, crucially, keeping safe all the data that would be contained in a national identity register."
That hints, though, at the first thing worth observing about the fiasco of the child benefit records: the more the blind appetite for information increases, the greater the scale of the inevitable catastrophe. Once upon a time, a couple of letters might get stuck down the back of a filing cabinet. Now, with gargantuan ambitions come gargantuan failures. Thus: 2111 "breaches in security" within HMRC during the last year alone. Thus: the Department of Work and Pensions posting out 26,000 letters, with 26,000 sets of bank details, to the wrong people. Thus: 41 laptops, containing who knows what, stolen from tax officials in the space of 12 months.
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