Huge data bases and the large number of people who routinely need access to them to do their jobs, led to the possibility that a minion was able to download data onto 25 million people, and possibly even to sell it. This was the way the news was framed when two discs went missing in the post (information about child benefit claimants).
Prof Ross Anderson, Cambridge University said: the govt consistently brush aside our reports which argue that large scale centralised data bases are vulnerable to unintended consequences.
Prof Ross Anderson was also behind the campaign last year against the centralised storage of NHS records and constructed a form letter for people to send to the DoH and to their GPs. "what can patients do to ensure confidentiality of NHS records?"
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/
UK's families put on fraud alert
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm
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