Data can be stored across disparate databases and altered or maintained by several different departments. More than a third of UK marketing bosses are passing the buck to other departments when it comes to data protection issues, while others...
The figure stood at 51 per cent versus just 28 per cent in France. They are our most common way of safeguarding digitally stored information over shared media but they are fraught with contradictions.
A consultant to UK Trade and Investment told me that the figure could be as high as a quarter of the businesses at the event this year. Camera phone users will often show photos stored on their handsets to those around them or maybe sync them with...
We may be in a situation where it is cheaper to go on storing it than to figure out what to delete. Sooner or later, the Jobcentre people are going to have to figure out what to do with the bits of paper they are writing things down on.
The figure is revealed in a wider report by the Public Accounts Committee criticising government purchasing body OGCbuying.solutions for failing to negotiate better buying deals for the public sector.
In parliamentary written answers, Berr admitted it had lost 96 laptops since 2001 (along with 82 mobile phones and nine PDAs) taking the total figure to more than 1,000 lost laptops across all government departments.