Is resignation or dismissal a solution for lost of your personal data?
Data loss seems to be a normal event now. Either a commercial body, or a process center, or the government department, it happens and happens again and again.
The recent case, "HMRC loses records on 25 million people in the post", let me think about whether someone resigns or be dismissed would be a solution. Will any one, affected or suffered, be comfortable about this outcome? I believe that everyone would prefer not to face such situation. Why those people fail to do thing right? The duty should be to safeguard other's data and not just to resign.
Some years ago in Hong Kong, some managers of SMEs already have to handle shipping documents by themselves. That was because messengers might lose these important documents due to their carelessness. This is a sad thing to say, management would not be effective unless all members from high to low would abide to their duties. The only factor is human. It seems that the original management was based on some type of human in the old days. Now, we have new breed of human, who would not care about duty, who count how much he/she get etc.
Of course, there is no way to avoid giving out our personal data. We have to face government, medication, insurance, banking etc. and we cannot say no. So, we must be prepared since we shall not be safe forever.
Data loss seems to be a normal event now. Either a commercial body, or a process center, or the government department, it happens and happens again and again.
The recent case, "HMRC loses records on 25 million people in the post", let me think about whether someone resigns or be dismissed would be a solution. Will any one, affected or suffered, be comfortable about this outcome? I believe that everyone would prefer not to face such situation. Why those people fail to do thing right? The duty should be to safeguard other's data and not just to resign.
Some years ago in Hong Kong, some managers of SMEs already have to handle shipping documents by themselves. That was because messengers might lose these important documents due to their carelessness. This is a sad thing to say, management would not be effective unless all members from high to low would abide to their duties. The only factor is human. It seems that the original management was based on some type of human in the old days. Now, we have new breed of human, who would not care about duty, who count how much he/she get etc.
Of course, there is no way to avoid giving out our personal data. We have to face government, medication, insurance, banking etc. and we cannot say no. So, we must be prepared since we shall not be safe forever.
posted by F. H. Tong at 2:30 AM
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