Teacher Data Goes “Missing”!!

During lunch today I picked up the paper to read that yet more data discs have gone missing. This time it is the details of teachers in the UK. Again, the data went missing in the post!! Wish my bills could get lost in the post just as much as these important discs!! But sadly, no such luck!!

It has been reported on the ITN website that “almost 11,500 teachers’ names, addresses and registration numbers were on the encrypted disc which vanished while being couriered to the General Teaching Council’s Birmingham Office”.

However a spokesperson claimed that national insurance numbers and financial information were not on the disc. Does this make the situation less alarming?! In my opinion, not at all. It frightens me that so much data is going missing and getting lost. In today’s society where we are told to shred everything with our names and addresses on I think this kind of blunder is extremely worrying for us all.

You can read the full report on the situation here.

Please let me know your views on this!!!

~ by sharon on September 26, 2008.