Ross Clark writes in the Daily Mail about the costs of the Database State:
When, in 2002, Tony Blair launched Connecting for Health, a £6.2 billion project to create a database of medical records of every man, woman and child in the country, he claimed it would boost the efficiency of the NHS.
‘If I live in [...]
Michael Settle writes in The Herald:
Britain has become a “database state” with almost a quarter of all main public sector databases needing to be scrapped or overhauled because they are almost certainly illegal, according to research published today.
In the first comprehensive look at 46 UK Government databases, a report for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, [...]
Heidi Blake writes in The Yorkshire Post:
Two major security glitches in a Government database of 11 million English children have raised fears that the most vulnerable are being put at risk.
A third of England’s 150 local authorities did not sign off on the first phase of ContactPoint scheme by the planned date of March 13 [...]
Christopher Hope writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Police and immigration officials lacked enthusiasm for the ID cards scheme when it was first proposed, an internal Government review showed.
The authors of the “Gateway” report, released under the Freedom of Information Act, wrote of their “concern” about the response to the plans from Government agencies, departments and business.
The [...]
According to Public Servant Daily:
The Home Office has admitted that the public would have to pay every time an ID card was damaged beyond use, despite the knowledge that ID cards are not expected to last the full 10 years, Mike Lowe reports.
Meeting minutes from the Chief Technology Officers (CTO) Council in November 2008 questioned [...]
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