UK Home Office has lost 43 laptops and 94 mobiles in 3 years
The Telegraph reports that
“Home Office data released in response to a question by the Tory peer Lord Hanningfield show that 43 laptops and 94 mobile phones have been lost or stolen at the department over the past three years – 15 laptops and 47 mobiles in 2007; 14 laptops and 10 mobiles in 2006; and 14 laptops and 37 mobiles in 2005.”
A major growth in mobile phones in 2007 , caused by the increasing use of smartphones.
The UK govt is averaging losing 300,000 users per month this year to April.
