@Britt: Media does well because it's their living #
Posted Thursday 9th July 2009 23:02 GMT
Journalists are careful with their data because they know that if they let somebody else get hold of their story, the scoop is lost - and that impacts them personally.
Whereas a civil servant or MP losing the name and address of every child in the country has no personal impact. Or indeed any bad effects at all, apparently.



