http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/17/driver-error/ Cllr Iain Lindley - Salford City Councillor for Walkden South Ward Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:13:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/17/driver-error/#comment-723 Lost In Transit at Cllr Iain Lindley’s Diary Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:33:10 +0000 http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/17/driver-error/#comment-723 [...] Yesterday I commented on the Government’s latest data-loss debacle. Today David Jones MP has a must-read post on the same issue. Here’s the important bit: It must also be asked why confidential British data were being stored in a foreign jurisdiction, where different data protection laws prevail, and beyond the reach of the British courts. Last year, I tabled a series of Parliamentary questions on the storage of online computer data to a number of Whitehall departments. All denied that any data were stored in foreign jurisdictions. I must dust off the answers, to see whether any of them may have been less than totally frank. [...] [...] Yesterday I commented on the Government’s latest data-loss debacle. Today David Jones MP has a must-read post on the same issue. Here’s the important bit: It must also be asked why confidential British data were being stored in a foreign jurisdiction, where different data protection laws prevail, and beyond the reach of the British courts. Last year, I tabled a series of Parliamentary questions on the storage of online computer data to a number of Whitehall departments. All denied that any data were stored in foreign jurisdictions. I must dust off the answers, to see whether any of them may have been less than totally frank. [...]

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