A long, detailed article in the Independent reports that “Database State” projects have contributed significantly to the £26bn cost of government computer systems that have suffered severe delays, run millions of pounds over budget or have been cancelled altogether. David Blackburn, writing in the Spectator Coffeehouse blog summarises: Let me take you on a whistle [...]
Andrew Hough and Martin Beckford write in the Daily Telegraph about security breaches in the ContactPoint database of all 11 million children in England: In November the Government declared that a pilot phase involving 20 councils and charities had been a success, and that the project will be taken up nationally. But there have been [...]
Michael Gillard and Richard Osley write in the Independent on Sunday: Police are using controversial car-surveillance technology aimed at catching criminals and terrorists to target members of the public in order to meet government performance targets and raise revenue, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. Police whistleblowers also claim that intelligence stored on the national [...]
Ian Grant writes in Computer Weekly: The Conservative Party will set up a new cyber threat and assessment centre, review key national databases and critical infrastructure systems, and scrap the national identity card system, says party leader David Cameron. The party also plans to review the controversial Interception Modernisation Programme, which collects information about every [...]
According to the Morning Star’s editorial: The DNA database for England and Wales holds over five million profiles, the largest per head in the world, and still includes an incredible one million people with no criminal conviction. And police forces are, in many cases, reluctant to remove the profiles of innocent people from that database. [...]
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