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From: <A href="mailto:lyger@attrition.org">lyger@attrition.org</A><BR>To: <A
href="mailto:dataloss@attrition.org">dataloss@attrition.org</A><BR>Sent:
12/26/2007 9:56:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time<BR>Subj: Re: [Dataloss] UK:
Police personal data found on discarded floppy<BR></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2><BR><BR>On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Dan O'Donnell
wrote:<BR><BR>": " <<A
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7160490.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7160490.stm</A>><BR>":
" <BR>": " Police data details found at dump<BR>": " A senior
police officer has apologised after confidential details of <BR>": " staff
were found on a dump in Devon.<BR>": " <BR>": " The details, on a floppy
disk, included names, addresses, telephone <BR>": " numbers and ranks of
employees of Devon and Cornwall Police.<BR>": " <BR>": " The disk was in an
obsolete computer that had been used by the force <BR>": " and had been sent
for recycling.<BR><BR>While losing the personal information of police
officers is certainly a <BR>concern due to the nature of their jobs, I've
noticed other recent reports <BR>of general "data loss" involving not much
more than names, addresses, and <BR>sometimes phone numbers. Should
this generally be considered "personal <BR>information" if such data can
usually be found in a phone book or <BR>Google (for most people
anyway)? Just a thought and something we consider <BR>when including
(or not including) breach data on attrition's data loss web <BR>page and
database...<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Dataloss
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