Tory incompetence: Cabinet Office publishes home addresses of Honours recipients
Data publication: This is how the recipients of the New Year Honours probably responded to the announcement that their private details had been made public by the government.
They really can’t complain. We can be sure most of the New Year Honours recipients voted for this kind of Tory ineptitude so they can’t make much of a fuss about having received it.
Yes, the Tory-run Cabinet Office has managed to publish the home addresses of celebrities including Elton John and cricketer Ben Stokes, alongside those of police officers, politicians like Iain Duncan Smith and Ministry of Defence staff, and hundreds of “unsung” local heroes.
The Tory government even made the details available in an easily-downloadable list – to make it extra easy for enemies of the state to access the home addresses of its defenders.
The spreadsheet was posted on the government website at 10.30pm on Friday (December 27), and was taken down early today (December 28).
But experts reckon the breach will be hard to remedy, now it has happened. Even if the number of people who downloaded the list is known – along with their identities, how many of them will have passed it on? It could spread like a virus.
Clearly the Tory government doesn’t have the slightest idea about data protection and cannot stick by the rules that it made for itself.
Of course we already knew that. The biggest security risk in the country is current prime minister Boris Johnson.
The Tories passed a new Data Protection Act last year, intended to ensure that sensitive information of this kind would not be broadcast by organisations such as, say, Her Majesty’s Government.
The Cabinet Office, which published the list, is responsible for supporting the National Security Council and the Joint Intelligence Organisation. It coordinates the government’s response to crises and manages the UK’s cybersecurity.
So we’re all doomed, obviously.
Source: Government exposes addresses of new year honours recipients
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