Following the data loss debacle at Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in the UK, the government has admitted that it will consider revising the 1998 Data Protection Act in an effort to ensure such a large-scale security breach does not happen again.
The Ministry of Justice has now confirmed that the review - to be carried out by information commissioner Richard Thomas and Mark Walport, director of medical research charity the Wellcome Trust - will consider whether there should be changes to the way the Data Protection Act works.
The incident has also prompted calls for a review of proposed information sharing legislation, which would enable government agencies to share more data about UK citizens.
