Who needs enemies?
Just seven pages long but classified as “UK Top Secret”, this latest intelligence assessment on al-Qaeda is so sensitive that every document is numbered and marked “for UK/US/Canadian and Australian eyes only”, according to our correspondent.
According to reports, this document may have contained details of names of individuals or locations which might have been useful to Britain’s enemies.
However, it appears that in a serious breach of the rules, the papers were taken out of Whitehall by an unnamed official and left in an orange cardboard envelope on the seat of a Surrey-bound train from London Waterloo on Tuesday.
Update: Amazingly, there were some other secret documents travelling on a train in the opposite direction on the same day! Read the story here.
And wait! There’s more:
November ‘07: Discs containing child benefit records of 25m people lost
December ‘07: Driving Standards Agency contractor loses records of 3m people
January ‘08: 600,000 details of would-be recruits lost by Naval officer
… And this lot want to introduce a database that holds the most detailed identity information about every single citizen of this country….
There’s an opportunity to tell them what you think of their National Identity theft Register here.
