U.K. Premier Apologizes For Vanished Data Disks

LONDON, Nov. 21 -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized Wednesday for a potentially disastrous government blunder in which two computer disks containing personal and financial data on 25 million Britons disappeared after a junior government minister said he handed them to a courier service.
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