In an effort to reduce public spending the government has introduced new legislation to fine itself up to £500,000 every time it has a data loss. The new rules are expected to raise over £4 million pounds per year from government departments alone.
"These penalties are designed to act as a deterrent," said the Information Commissioner, "which will make civil servants take the issue of data protection more seriously. If government departments have to pay large fines to the government then government employees might think twice before leaving a laptop on a train, or CDs in the back of a taxi, containing sensitive data."
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8 comments:
Christ, and there's me thinking this was a pisstake!
What the fucking fuck?
Its a brilliant idea! I'll adapt it myself. I'm always losing stuff, socks, wallets, will to live etc so everytime I do that I'll fine myself a fiver. Think of what I can do with all that extra money at the end of the... oh wait, I think I spotted a flaw.
JohnW
So it's basically a very big swear box...
Funny how they never think to fine the guilty individuals personally isn't it?
I believe in the real world where all the money actually comes from, a company director is personally liable for data protection breaches in his organisation. Let's have a bit of that in the public sector with senior (un)civil servants up against the wall when they lose my data.
I suggest the following penalties for government employees/ministers/quangocrats/local councillors/charity employees (engaged in AGW campaigns)/busybodies generally:
1. For lying/PR speak/avoiding questioning: Waterboarding
2. Any other offence, including imposing fines to be paid with other peoples' money: suffocation by wrapping in clingfilm followed by a beating with Le Creuset frying pan.
This is a brilliant idea... seeing as how the Government is taxing half my income, I'm going to tax myself the other half.
So excited about this actually. I've been awake all night and figured out (although it took the backs of three envelopes) that if I tax myself really hard then I'll be able to afford my own navy and everything :-)
Okay, must dash, I have important treasury business at Tesco. Going to ask them if they'll let me pay an additional 20% on top of the VAT for my groceries?
WTF sums it up nicely :D
Might I suggest that members of the public draw lots and 10 of us fine them £50 grand each for losing OUR fucking data?
But then that would be a real fine wouldn't it? which I suppose defeats the object of the exercise.
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