Government + Private Data = Disaster!

Here you have it, although countless people have stated the situation in regards to government and personal data insecurity, it would take an disaster like this to wake people up.

UK’s families put on fraud alert

Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing.

The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25m people.

Chancellor Alistair Darling said there was no evidence the data had gone to criminals – but urged people to monitor bank accounts “for unusual activity”.

In an emergency statement to MPs, Mr Darling apologised for what he described as an “extremely serious failure on the part of HMRC to protect sensitive personal data entrusted to it in breach of its own guidelines”.

MPs gasped as Mr Darling told them: “The missing information contains details of all Child Benefit recipients: records for 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families.”

Children don’t need fathers, they need lesbians

The government is pushing through laws (without public vote, which Gordon Brown is refusing, dictatorship anyone?) enabling lesbians to have children, using men as sperm donors only, and striking their existence from the children’s life.

Lesbian parents are ‘last nail in coffin’ of traditional family

The Government was accused today of driving the “last nail in the coffin” of the traditional family with moves to grant gay couples equal parenting rights.

Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative leader, spoke out against plans to allow lesbian couples to become joint legal parents of children conceived used donated sperm or eggs. His comments, in an article for the Mail on Sunday, came as the proposals are due to come before the House of Lords in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill on Monday.

The paper claimed that the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu would also speak against the Bill, announced in this month’s Queen’s Speech to the dismay of family campaigners, the newspaper claimed.

Mr Duncan Smith called for Parliament to reject the Bill, saying it would remove the requirement for a father.