Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK's Police National Computer database • The Register
This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time... Share Copy An "error" in a "standard housekeeping process" on the UK’s controversial Police National Computer (PNC) database has led to the deletion of more than 150,000 DNA, fingerprint and other records, the Home Office has confirmed. The PNC - the national law enforcement DB that holds personal info on people arrested by the police as well as data on people who have been questioned by police but never charged or convicted of any offence - is hosted on a Fujitsu mainframe, running Software AG's Natural programming language using ...
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