Is the government taking the piss?

The first time the government loses some data you might wish to criticise them but it is, if not acceptable, at least understandable. The second and third times it is neither acceptable nor understandable nor forgiveable as they should be on their guard. The amount of times it has happened over the past year or so however leaves one to ask whether we (generally speaking, I don't think I'm in any danger of being in the latest batch) are the victims of some dreadful prank where whereby the departments have to find ever more ridiculous ways to lose our data.

Rest easy though, the company being blamed for the latest fiasco are a major contractor on the identity card/database project.