The biggest news in UK this week, if we don't count the EURO 2008 disqualifying of England football team, is Child Benefit Scandal, which effects more than 25m people in country.

For my readers who aren't in UK, the brief story is one junior officer in Revenue and Custom department sent the discs that contain personal data of English families to the Audit department via unregistered post. Two of them did not reach the destination and no one know where they are.

The data in those discs include name, social number, children information and bank account number (for parents to reclaim their child benefit). Sure, bank account password isn't included but a lot of people use their child's name or birthday as password.

There is no report that the discs are in bad people's hand (anyway, a lot of spoof discs emerged in eBay UK). Whether the discs will be found or not, the creditability of the government is severely damaged.

This scandal cost the director of Revenue and Customs department his job and Minister of Economics, called "Chancellor of the Exchequer" here, is on a heavy pressure for resignation.

PM Gordon Brown was on TV and "profoundly regret and apologise" to the parliament.

Even if I'm not a Brit, I'm very thrilled about this. How is the security of our private data in Thailand? The country that we can find many confidential data, especially spreadsheet, by government departments using Google.

Is this the sign of 'encrypted everything' era?

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