Now government loses three million driver details

 

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By Matthew Sparkes

Posted on 17 Dec 2007 at 17:30

Personal details of a further three million UK citizens has been lost by the government, according to transport secretary Ruth Kelly.

The names, phone numbers and addresses of three million candidates for the driving theory test have been lost by a contractor to the Driving Standards Agency. The data was lost on a hard disk in the US in May of this year, by the Iowa-based contractor.

The hard disk contained the details of people who had taken the theory test between September 2004 and April 2007. Kelly claims that those affected have not yet been contacted by the government.

This latest loss follows just a month after Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs admitted that it had lost the personal details of 25 million people when it sent two CDs through the post that were subsequently lost.

The Driver and Vehicle Agency in Northern Ireland last week admitted it too had lost the details of 8,000 people on mislaid CDs.