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28 November 2007

Data protection - public disgrace, private concerns

An item on the easier.com site yesterday confirms that the private sector is sitting up and taking notice of the recent HMRC data debacle .

Motor dealers are now being urged to review their systems and procedures for the safe storage and processing of personal data relating to their custoimers.  In issuing this call to action, the RMI National Franchised Dealers Association expressly pointed its members to the HMRC disaster.

More proof perhaps - if any were needed - that business is now very much alive to the need to show Joe Public that it takes protection of his data seriously.  After all, HMRC may be a monopoly, but this is an advantage denied to the commercial sector.

Posted at 01:41 PM in Data Protection |

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