Michael Cross on the malaise at the heart of the government's IT infrastructure - The Guardian 29th November 2007

Careless use of personal data highlighted the malaise at the heart of the government's IT infrastructure - but will it change the internal culture, wonders Michael Cross Data CDs The sound of two dropped CDs is still echoing around the government's £14bn-a-year IT programme. And the effects are already being felt: last week the NHS IT agency Connecting for Health warned hospitals not to post discs containing unencrypted personal data to the central NHS Tracing Service, run by a private contractor in the Midlands. Media not meeting security standards "will be destroyed upon receipt", it warned. And on Tuesday ministers announced a five-month delay to ContactPoint, a database with details about every child in the UK.

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