When will they ever learn?

There is yet another scandal concerning the loss of sensitive data from the Government; this time details of thousands of criminals.

Apart from the stupidity of copying such data onto a memory stick (for God's sake there are Government departments that advise on this) why the hell wasn't it encrypted when it was put on to that memory stick?

It doesn't matter whether it was the Government or a contractor that was to blame the buck stops with the Government since it was their procedures that should have been followed.

Additionally, I do hope that the contactors involved were SCed.