Records Management: Our invisible profession

Revelation of the loss of unencrypted personal data for over 25 million Britons, half of the country’s population, from today’s NYT.

Steve Bailey Writes A Bit About records managers:

In a story regarding just about the biggest and potentially most significant ever failure of records management in the UK the records management profession does not get a single mention, not one, neither as villain nor potential saviour; and that has to be a worry. Is our profile really that low? Is the true extent of our professional remit really that narrow and the impact of our actions really that negligible?