Building society loses staff data

workforce.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7138106.stm I find this bit interesting:

"This contains the details you receive on your payslip, some of which is already in the public domain (i.e. on cheques, in the telephone directory, etc)."

[Tim and Ronald: These quotation marks mean that the text within is an exact copy of part of a statement]

I suppose that the knowledge there is a bank called Barclays and it has some branches in Leeds is in the public domain and maybe even the sort code of a certain branch but I don't think that applies to the account number and branch of an employee.

Didn't it merge with the Halifax, years ago?

Don't think so.. but the Bank Of Scotland did.

Why bother saying this, when for the purposes of your remark it doesn't make a jot of difference whether the quote is exact or approximate?

And what's this "exact copy of *part of*"? This is potentially a cop-out, because quoting only part of something can distort the meaning, as well you know. I'm not of course suggesting that you are doing so in this instance, just making the point that if you're suggesting the use of quote marks gives the passage an air of authority on the grounds of an implied exactness, this could easily be nullified by the selectiveness.

In message , Enzo wrote

I had a Leeds Building Society savings and mortgage and when the society merged they got re-branded Halifax.

Why do you say it doesn't make a difference? I don't see how it is possible to decide that.

Quoting part of something can be a cop-out but I don't see it is in this case. If you are serious you would be going round insisting everybody quoted the full text of every document even if it was a book or long article. That would be total nonsense.

With all this data going missing should the data commissioners office step in and prosecute offenders because isn't the 7th rule for data storage -it must be secure ?

Gio

Until 2005, it was known as the Leeds & Holbeck Building Society.

"Matthew" wrote

Or look here for the Leeds Permanent Building Society, which is the one that merged with Halifax (a little over 10 years ago) :-