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"London taxi passengers have left more than 60,000 hand-held devices in the back of black cabs during the past six months, a survey has found." I find this hard to believe. Are taxi passengers really that ignorant? In only one city, this survey suggests that about 10,000 items are left in cabs every month. The survey also says that most of the forgotten devices have very valuable information on them which could become disastrous in the wrong hands. For instance, the survey shows that two discs were lost that contained the entire child benefit records of about 25 million people. Also, a memory stick containing key details on tens of thousands of prisoners was lost in August. Losing such crucial information in cabs just shows how careless people can get. The article also says "Print-outs don't need to be ferried from pillar to post, yet it seems too many people regard sensitive data with the same careless regard they have for their umbrella". I don't think the carelessness of some people will ever be fixed but at least we should try and use the best security for such valuable devices. Something needs to be done.

I found this article on BBC News; the URL is http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7620569.stm.