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UK: Guardian article - Bigger databases increase risks, say watchdog

01 October 2008

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Bigger databases increase risks, says watchdog (Guardian, link)

"The proliferation of ever larger centralised databases is increasing the risk of people's personal data being lost or abused, the government's official privacy watchdog claims today. The warning from the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, comes as he discloses that reported data losses have soared in the past year."

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