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Came across an article in the BBC News where, in response to the British Government's loss of 25 million people's personal information, a British TV presenter by the name of Jeremy Clarkson said it was all hogwash, everything about data security was overblown and overhyped, and to prove his point, published the details of his bank account in a Sun newspaper column.

"All you'll be able to do with them is put money into my account. Not take it out. Honestly, I've never known such a palaver about nothing," Clarkson told readers.

WRONG!

"I opened my bank statement this morning to find out that someone has set up a direct debit which automatically takes £500 from my account," he said. "The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again."

Clarkson also issued a mea culpa over the British Government's loss of the data discs, saying, "Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy."

Let's hope Clarkson doesn't next try to disprove that death is the number one killer of people.

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