This is a big week for Alain Job. The 40-year-old football coach is bringing his case against the Halifax bank to court. He says that fraudsters withdrew GB pound 2,100 from his account at ATMs, even though he was in possession of his card, and he doesn’t want to pay.
Chip-and-pin was supposed to stop disputes like this. First introduced to the UK in 2004, it replaced signatures with chips embedded in bank cards that verify a customer’s four-digit pin. Cards also contain a secret key used to validate the card with the bank.
– The Guardian
Recklessly or repeatedly mishandling personal information should become a criminal offence, a committee of MPs urges today in the wake of the child benefit fiasco.
A report from the justice select committee says there is evidence of a widespread problem within government and expresses concern that further cases of data loss are still coming to light, adding that concerns about systemic failings were raised two years ago by the man now in charge of the government’s review of security. The committee says that companies should be obliged to report information losses.
– The Guardian
British investors in Kenya were bolstering their security arrangements and revising contingency plans to withdraw staff yesterday if post-election violence in the country escalates.
Standard Chartered, one of the biggest British employers in Kenya, with 1,050 staff at 28 sites, said that it had been forced to shut branches in areas affected by violence and insisted that it was doing everything possible to ensure the safety of its employees.
– The Times
