Best experts money can buy: Britain’s policing minister says “human error” led to hundreds of thousands of DNA records and other data on criminal suspects being erased from the national police computer
Best experts money can buy: Britain’s policing minister says “human error” led to hundreds of thousands of DNA records and other data on criminal suspects being erased from the national police computer
Some might say that they should immediately fire the people responsible for this error. I think they should fire whoever should have made sure that all data was backed up.
The public service is where the absolute dregs of the IT industry end up, but even most private corporations have minimal to nonexistent data protection/business continuity plans. *cough*Parler*cough*
And Daniel … the Public “Service” Deep State employees are UNIFORMLY rabid radical leftist nutjobs … who are more than willing to personally ‘liberate’ all those POC who have been “unjustly” logged into the criminal justice system. Defund the Police? Hell … just cripple the police … from within.
Firing all the people involved in this “error” should be the minimum. Their entire lives should be taken apart, analyzed, and inspected. Every text, email, Tweet, Post … everything. And yes … the UK has a “Deep State” too.
This.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TVMn_d_Pk
Jump ahead to the 1:50 mark to see the start of the sackings, pay attention to the full credits if you’re wondering why there were sackings.
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absolutely no way this wasn’t being backed up on a daily basis.
some rich dude paid mightily to erase his misdeeds and hid
it inside mass destruction.
only way this data is truly gone is deliberate action by a highly
motivated (as in lifetime payoff) operator.
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Always an “accident”.
Another first class job by the crew who deleted the climate data?
so reassuring that you dont believe some budding criminal suspect didnt grease some IT paws with some bitcoin for it to happen
And yet the fire arms registry can never be deleted.
The naughty tweets folder also never disappears.
Priorities and such.
Nor one’s tax records, especially after being audited.
Was DNA categorized by skin colour? Immigration status? “Gender”? Alphabet? Geography?
What group was “mistakenly” deleted from the record?
The investigation into how to bury this incident and keep incidents like it from the public is ongoing.
Do you even have to ask?
Betcha dollars to doughnuts that Tommy Robinson’s records weren’t “accidentally” deleted.
Can he be considered a POC ? If not, then his records are still intact.
Maybe policing is too much for the police to handle.
Didn’t think Anything could b deleted, actually. It used to be *.* was all you needed to retrieve files.
It’s B.S. for what reason I haven’t figured out yet. But don’t sit there and tell me it’s *poof* gone forever, cause I ain’t buying it, when it comes to computers nothing is lost forever.
And if it was that damn important why didn’t they back it up?
“….when it comes to computers nothing is lost forever.”
…..unless your last name is Clinton that is………..
They must have “mistakenly” used the same hard drive eraser software.
Makes me wonder what the going rate for a “data accident” is in Britain these days. How convenient for a Russian mobster or a French drug dealer if their henchman got off because of a “data accident” eh? Delete one record, that’s corruption. Delete them all, that’s an “accident”.
A spokesman for the Duke of York declined to comment.
So now they’ll need everyone’s DNA.
Given that in the Pisslamic Caliphate of UK, DNA data on innocent people stay in cop database, just in case it can be used against them in the future, this was probably a good a thing.
I can see errors causing data wipes, but how do they not have back ups? Back ups in an off-site facility? Seriously, first rule of data storage: “If it’s not in three places, it doesn’t exist”.
Father, grandfather, greatgrandfather. And in different locations!
In the bad old days I had a reel-to-reel tape with all my department’s primary files in the bottom drawer of my desk. It was a greatgreatgarndfather copy. We needed it once.
Have had to go to a very archived laptop more than once to retrieve original information on asset purchases for clients. Current accounting program won’t read the really old files, and the accountant’s information went walkabout some years ago. And spouse asks why I refuse to have the old laptops updated.
“… the national police computer”. Right. A nation that cracked Enigma in its many forms for most of WW2 can not remember to make and keep backups?
Perhaps they can buy a copy of the database from China? Chances are some of their people worked in the department.
Yes … but that was a different generation. Not once did they protest in the streets SCREAMING to … defund the Police. The current generation prefers FREE college … and FREEDOM from Law Enforcement. FREE to do crimes with their Droogs …
I guess after the next Muslim terror attack, the police won’t be able to say they had been watching them for ages.
I’m disappointed my clever post title received no accolades.
I took it personally … as my sausage-sized fingers type the wrong letter every two sentences.
FAT as in File Allocation Table. Good one :). It takes some effort to truely erase a file. Use a hammer to be sure. Bleachbit if you don’t want to get physical.
Could be fate? But ‘e’s lost.
What … No Backup…
Most large business back up their data daily. In the old days we backed it up and saved the backup copy in another site in case fire destroyed the computer.
Now a days people back up their stuff to a Cloud account.
i would be surprised if they didn’t do this, I would also not be surprised if they didn’t.
Music and videos: two different USB SSDs plus a tablet with a 256GB microSDXC card. Email address book, browser bookmarks, login credentials for everything: two different USB flash drives. Everything well hidden when not in use.
What a bunch of hapless wannabe morons the UK police must have hired.
DNA, a fatty acid.
Hence the double entendre.
Homage explained, cut = paste.
It may not be “the finger” exactly… but on Rowan & Martin’s iconic comedy show “Laugh In,” the “Flying Fickle Finger of Fate” was often used as a euphemism for “the bird.” It was often “awarded” to people or government municipalities for dubious reasons such as not approving school budgets.
Perhaps a fumbling finger, but I think not.