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Petition update, 07 December 2007

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If a company suffers a security breach which puts customers' sensitive personal data at risk, it should be obliged to warn its customers that their information may have been compromised so they can act accordingly to protect themselves.

In the UK there is no requirement for companies to reveal that a breach has taken place - which means leaks of sensitive data can take place unknown to customers.

We want the government to review its data protection legislation and improve the reporting of information security breaches in the public and private sectors.

We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individuals' sensitive personal data at risk.

A number of high-profile data breaches have eroded public faith in the ability of organisations to protect sensitive personal information and only a change in the law to force companies to come clean about data breaches will restore it.

Current signatories

Steve Ranger, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Natasha Lomas
• Gemma Simpson
• Julian Goldsmith
• Tony Hallett
• Tim Ferguson
• mairi mackechnie
• Tim Hubbard
• Dick King
• S King
• ThomasRand
• Matthew Harding
• Doug Irvine
• Alan Gibbs
• Dave Shortland
• Dr Paul Kuczora
• John Rutter
• Verity Ng
• Thomas Richardson
• J C Walker
• John Wilson
• Steve Kitchener
• Andrew Hay
• Neville Mitchell
• David Wade
• Paul Stone
• David Bradley
• Terry Galsworthy
• Peter Morrissey
• John Douglas
• D J Pritchard
• Simon McDougal-Brownhill
• J Lee
• Alec McVean
• Michael Davidson
• John Edyvane
• Dave Kitson
• n d
• Ian Williams
• Mahboob Khan
• Jamie Cowper
• Mike Howse
• Barry Mattacott
• Andrew Lewis
• John W M Macmillan
• Andrew Timothy Graves
• Matthew Hardy
• Robin Conway
• Simon Jump
• John Westbury
• Hugh McMaster
• Russell Hempel
• Julian Brookes
• Keith Batt
• James Strachan
• Chris farrington
• Alfred Reading
• Iain Tulloch
• John Massey
• George Nardell
• Sally Brant
• Christopher Quinton
• Neil Stinchcombe
• Graham Turnbull
• Simon Jones
• C P Anderson
• Nick Thomas
• Christopher J Brown
• Timothy Hughes
• Janice Clarke
• Paul Grimsdell
• Kathryn Reddy
• Tony O'Callaghan
• Frank Little
• alain williams
• Rupert
• D Stonall
• Mark Harris
• Richard Aylward
• NIGEL BULMER
• Katharine Hobbs
• Andrew Smith
• Martin Smith
• Angela Farquhar
• Matt Goodman
• Jeremy Drew
• David Brown
• Marek Stancel
• Derek Cullen
• Joj Lind
• Hilary Brown
• Susan May
• Dr Steve Treadwell
• Peter Goodwin
• Nick Mercer
• Gordon Insley
• Martyn Clarke
• Matthew Horwell
• Vincent J Bobin
• Chris Chrisostomou
• John Maher
• Richard Wallwork
• ian mcgregor
• Phillip J Burrows
• david smith
• Julie Wood
• Frank Kelly
• Tony Harbon
• tim hall
• Phil Waller
• Robert Spiers
• Robert Hempel
• Tania Hurst Wells
• Jonathan Smyth
• David Munge
• Adam Bartlett
• John Nigel Wales
• Steven Cook
• Jon Loveless
• Peter Robert Horne
• clive hammond
• Chris Davis
• Richard Peters
• Michael Johnson
• Karl Kynaston
• Dan Zamoyski
• Peter Keating
• Neil Bartlett
• David Davies
• Carl Brown
• Stephen Langford
• Andy McCue
• Robert O'Brien
• Alison Boling
• Glyn Wintle
• John Clack
• Ian Brown
• Tony Spenner
• Kenneth Bell
• Tim Martin
• Nicholas Paul Appleby
• Jon Grant
• Paul Millar
• Michael Zampino
• David Pugh
• Adrian Carey
• S. Challinor
• Francis Kellett
• John H. Hall
• rob gretton
• j challinor
• Caran Hutchings
• Glenn Robinson
• Jacqueline Depares
• Ingo Wachter
• David McCombie
• David Herbert
• Darren Higgins
• Iain Elliott
• stuart fear
• Robert Macdermott
• Hugh Bracey
• Graham Cobb
• Ian Kilpatrick
• Gillian Griffith-Porter
• John Porter
• Colin Jenkins
• David Parkinson
• Ailsa Billington
• David Levin
• Thomas Lee
• Jack Bowyer
• Chris Geary
• Cara Quinton
• Paul Bellchambers
• Marc Wilson
• Kay Banham
• Jonathan Shorter
• John Sniadowski
• Nicholas Evans
• Ralph Dean Pruitt
• S J Hall
• Christine Pahalka
• Bernard Woods
• Ronald Gordon Hopkinson
• David Reid
• Keith Taylor
• phj houseago
• Jon Hobden
• Adam Sharp
• Julian Wesson
• David Loewy
• Kevin Lewis
• Judith Jeffcoate
• Mark Keddie
• Tom Grieve
• Dr. David Brewer
• Sean Spinks
• Lin Bradbrook
• Colin Neal
• I Bruce
• sandra ward
• James Mace
• Christopher Devlin
• a large
• Christopher McLean-Benjamin
• Chris Nixon
• Chris Bell
• David Stedham
• michael henry howe
• John Foster
• David Muxworthy
• Richard Dawe
• Charanjit Sidhu
• Andrew Service
• Dr Trevor Dimbylow
• James Rigg
• Stephen Miiler
• Anita McClellan
• Gavin Tugby
• Elizabeth Howard
• Michael Wolf
• Grant Cooper
• Ed Gregory
• Luke Howard
• Robert Samuel
• Mark Wolton
• Max Ashton
• Mary Cooper
• Jean-Jacques Dauchot
• Rebecca Wright
• David Braund
• Tom Young
• Paul Fitzmaurice
• Gina Dixon
• Nigel Ryder
• James Benson
• Richard Augier
• John Hartley
• tim frankland
• Nick Howard
• Gerry Stutters
• Sarah Baker
• thomas patrick o'hare
• Steve Treeby
• Mark Dunn
• Peter Rowland
• Peter Jameson
• Arnold Simanowitz
• A Owaineh
• Graham Reed
• Pete Jones
• Derek Monnery
• Dave Ruppert
• Gail Purvis
• Graeme Cox
• Gary Porter
• Nathan Hewitt
• Daniel Le Masurier
• Michael Fischer
• Stuart Wilson
• Sean Francis
• David Beet
• Iain Fothergill
• Roy Farrance
• Ian Woods
• Daniel Randall
• Emma Dunstone
• Pete Hendrick
• Louise Sanders
• Niall O'Malley
• Mital Joshi
• Claire Ginn
• Katharine Greenwood
• Keith Yorkston
• Graham Shepherd
• Nigel Gill
• Mark George
• Jim Walsh
• Claire Garner
• Nick Garlick
• Edward Clarke
• Yogesh Raja
• Frank Bradley
• Paul Janik, Slough Party
• Muktadir Khan
• Scott Wood
• Johanna Hanley
• David Hanley
• W.S.Lau
• Zara Phang
• Nick Dunstone
• Paul Davie
• Philippa Davie
• Ian Quine
• Rachel CHicken
• Kate Trend
• Claire Harvey
• Jonathan Wilkinson
• Louise Deverell
• Matt Bruce
• Jonathan Dobbs
• Ben Webb
• Marian Scigulinsky
• David kirchner
• Paul Betteridge
• John Barker
• Alison Hall
• Adela Scigulinska
• Nicola Vosloo
• Paul Harris
• Natasha Staley
• Emily Wilson
• Sofie Greenwood
• Paul Way
• Fuchsia Arnold
• Ruth McCullough
• Amanda Chesters
• Fraser Harding
• Chris Jones
• Helen Carroll
• Patsy Smith
• Kate Adderley
• Victoria Jupp
• Hannah Marriott
• Stuart Sharp
• James G Wilson
• Andrey V. Brozhko
• Tom Taylor
• Ronan Huggard
• Stephen Hurn
• Christine Hanley
• Matt Tribble
• Gemma Golightly
• Matt Connor
• What would be better, of course, is for firms to ensure such breaches never take place!
• David Pladgeman
• Debbie Hoods
• Holly Berry