Insecure databases

By The Newsroom

Published 30th Apr 2007, 01:00 BST

In the same week that you reveal the detrimental impact that the Medical Training Application Service is having on the careers of junior doctors, the service saw fit to accidentally publish intimate details of applicants on the web: names, addresses, phone numbers, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, etc.

Yet another reminder about the insecurity of government databases.

GERAINT BEVAN

NO2ID Scotland

Grovepark Gardens

Glasgow