BBC Admits Loss of Children’s Data, Rejects Any Responsibility
Allowing your offspring to take part in a kids cooking show hosted by the BBC might not be as safe as you imagine. 250 children who applied for BBC1’s “Gastronauts” had to provide the television with a number of personal details which were later lost by an independent production company BBC was working with.
The children’s names, phone numbers, addresses and dates when parents were planning to be away were stored on a memory stick which was left unattended in a car belonging to an Objective Productions employee.
Although it has announced all those involved of the data loss, BBC tried to push the production company to take the fall for the breach as an attempt not to share responsibility. Yet security experts quoted by Vnunet.com state otherwise, showing both companies are responsible for the safety of data they are entrusted with. BBC should have reviewed its own security protocols and those of the company they shared the private records with. I wonder who they’ll blame next 
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