Apropos the ContractPoint database, (the database of every child in the UK), and the proposed ID card scheme:
“If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, I am not sure it is wise to make the haystack even bigger” Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner
Posts Tagged ‘database’
Words of wisdom.
Posted in Civil liberties, Identity Fraud, Life, tagged , database, ID card on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Confidential documents go missing part II.
Posted in Identity Fraud, Politics, tagged Alastair Darling, bank records., database, HMRC, Identity Fraud, Northern Rock on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Latest update 16:00 GMT Tuesday 20 November. Now we learn following a Commons statement from the Chancellor Alastair Darling, that it’s actually 25 million records, but more importantly, and in addition, 7 million individual bank account and building society records. This is surely about as bad as it could get for Alastair Darling, following his less [...]
Confidential documents go missing.
Posted in Identity Fraud, Politics, tagged child benefits, database, HMRC, Identity Fraud on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So only today do we learn, nine or ten days later than ministers were told, that HM Revenue and Customs have lost 15 million confidential child benefit records. See BBC web site.
No doubt more of this latest debacle will emerge in the coming days. Let us hope that this latest episode will help to [...]
Police national computer – failure of number plate recognition technology.
Posted in Civil liberties, Police, tagged BBC, database, insurance, Liverpool, PNC, Police, surveillance, technology on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just watched a programme on BBC television, which neatly points out all that is wrong with the surveillance society, and the reliance placed on technology by the authorities, to the detriment of the innocent citizen.
The Liverpool police were having a crack down on uninsured cars one day, and deployed 40 + police vehicles with [...]
