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It’s not long since Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) lost the data of some 25 million British citizens on two data disks, which have still to be found. The Parliamentary report into that incident, called The Protection of Private Data, has called for much stricter data protection laws, according to the BBC.   Calling the incident “truly shocking,” committee chairman Alan Beith said,   "The scale of… Read More

In the week before the Feb. 2 discovery of ricin in the Dirksen Senate Office building mailroom, the committee announced (to mostly yawns) that it was moving into Phase II of its pilot program, which proposes to make opening constituent mail by staff members a thing of the past. “Since then, we've seen a lot interest in the program,” Bryan Walsh, a spokesman for Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), chairman of the committee, told… Read More