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IF IT'S SUCH A SMALL WORLD, THAT DATA HAS TO BE AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE

December 18, 2007

Iowa, already famous for it's skills at picking presidential candidates, has achieved another bit of accidental international noteriety:

The British government's IT security woes got deeper today when Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly reported to Parliament that the personal data of some 3 million U.K. drivers has been lost by a contractor in Iowa.

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"In May this year, Pearson Driving Assessments Ltd, a private contractor to the Driving Standards Agency, informed the agency that a hard disk drive had gone missing from its secure facility in Iowa City, Iowa," Kelly said. "The hard disk drive contained the records of just over three million candidates for the driving theory test."

The records contained the driver's name, postal address, phone number, the test fee paid, the test center, a code indicating how the test was paid for, and an email address, Kelly said.

E-mail addresses? Just imagine how many wonderful new offers for replica watches and enhanced prowess our U.K. friends will now receive.

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