Here we go again.
This time it is the Driver and Vehicle Agency in Northern Ireland that has been playing fast and loose with your data, or at least that of some three million would be drivers whose details have gone missing. This time the data disappeared not in transit between a couple of government departments in the UK, but somewhere in Iowa apparently. According to a statement by the Transport Secretary, Ruth Kelly, the data was sent electronically to an outfit called Pearson Driving Assessments in Iowa, US one has to assume for processing purposes, and the hard drive containing the names, addresses and telephone numbers of those applicants was then passed off to someone at some company (the details are far from clear as to who or why) in another state before getting lost either on the way back or on arrival in Iowa.