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UK: Call for ban on physical transfer of digital files

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Dissent

Andrew Charlesworth reports:

A complete ban on using physical media to transfer digital files has been called for in a recent report, which found that nearly one in five companies is still using couriers such as the postal system to send media containing large or sensitive files.

This is despite the well-publicised data breach caused when the HMRC misplaced a number of discs in 2007 and the publication of the Poynter Report two years ago.

Read more on Computing.co.uk


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