Memory Stick With 84,000 Prisoner Records Lost In U.K. -- Storage Security -- InformationWeek

It's happened again. A loss of large amounts of personal data - this time data on 84,000 prisoners in the UK and 33,000 police records. Again, the loss stemmed from data stored on a memory stick that was in the hands of a contractor. The contract even forbad storing data on portable units like memory sticks, but it was done anyway. This is one of the chief challenges of contemporary data management - setting up security procedures that trace the movements of data and cover all the places in which it is stored or through which it moves - security procedures that follow the data. Memory Stick With 84,000 Prisoner Records Lost In U.K. -- Storage Security -- InformationWeek