Time for a giggle. Time, too, for a little serious thinking about data protection.

The giggle turns up in a story today about a faulty birthday present.

A seven-year old boy opens a package from his aunt to find within – oh, ecstasy! – a superman outfit.

Then, catastrophe: the belt is missing. How can he be Superman without a superbelt to hold his superpants up?

So his mother phones Marks & Spencer, and here the farce begins...