'Government Process IQ Trainwrecks' Category
Economic impact of Information Quality
First off - an apology for not posting a bit more regularly. It’s not that there aren’t any IQ Trainwrecks, it’s just that there have been so many recently we’ve been spoiled for choice for the ones to use and we haven’t had time to edit and compile them all.
However, one that jumped out of […]So, they’ve got guns and are trained to kill…
let’s screw with their pay…
From the erstwhile The Register comes this story about on-going information quality problems in the British Forces pay and personnel system. There have been complaints of pay being withheld for months.
The MOD blames the data input monkeys staff and insists that the system is working fine.
“Input errors based on a degree of unfamiliarity with […]We all know toddlers are terrors…
… but this story (again culled from The Register.co.uk) shows the lengths the US government goes to to stop these known terrors from getting on planes via the Terrorist Screening lists maintained by the Dept Homeland Security.
“USA Today tells the story of a Disney World-loving 6-year-old who shares a name with someone on the “additional […]“Problems with the quality of the data” cause process traffic jam
Hundreds of Irish motorists (this author included) have technically driving uninsured because of delays with the National Car Test (the Irish equivalent of the UK MOT). This was reported by the Sunday Business Post on the 19th of August.
The Irish Road Safety Authority has confirmed that some motorists may not have been informed that their car was […]CalPERS apologizes for printing Social Security numbers on participant mailings
LA Times August 23, 2007The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. public pension program, said Wednesday it accidentally printed the Social Security numbers of almost half a million retirees on brochures mailed last week.A mail-processing computer inadvertently added recipients’ partial or full Social Security numbers to mailing labels attached to brochures sent to […]
