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The British government is seriously considering implementing tougher data loss rules.

There have been a number of data losses recently in Britain and the government is pretty serious about this. With new technologies being developed it is becoming important to secure the personal data in both the public and private sectors

As per the new rules the information commissioner would be given more powers to enforce the Data Protection Act. It has also been proposed to increase the fines.

All companies, private or public are expected to show some evidence of their compliance with this new law.

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In the past few months, UK government has faced a number of public data losses. A lot of information related to prisoners, hospitals, personal details of officials has been lost and the government is struggling to find the reasons. These days, the UK government is searching for people to trust with the personal details. Many small and large data loss disasters have badly affected the government. Though many officials were disciplined related to data loss issue, these scandals prove the need for country wide data security mechanism. The prime minister admits that the government is not good at protecting the data and the data breach threat is more as the amount of digital information is expected to double in the next couple of years.  

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Seagate has announced that it is concentrating on shipment of new self encrypting hard drives for OEMs and resellers. These hard drives are of high capacity ensuring seamless self encryption of data. Without the intervention of processor, the data are encrypted before it is stored in the hard drive. Further, the writing speed is not delayed by self encryption.  

The advantage of these drives is that the encryption is invisible for the users. With such hard drives, the companies need not worry about proper usage of encryption software by its employees. These hard drives are incorporated in various models of Dell computers.   

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