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Archive for February, 2010

ContactPoint: £224m national children’s database ‘is not stable’, officials admit

Posted at Monday, February 22nd, 2010 by andrew

Andrew Hough and Martin Beckford write in The Daily Telegraph:
A series of internal documents and emails from Surrey County Council show, for the first time, the concern that has been privately expressed by officials about the [Contactpoint] database.
One official, whose details were blacked out, reported to a supervisor: “It has been a frustrating time recently [...]

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Innocent people could have lives wrecked by ‘Big Brother’ vetting checks

Posted at Sunday, February 21st, 2010 by andrew

Laura Donnelly writes in The Sunday Telegraph:
Guidance seen by The Sunday Telegraph, which has been given to more than 100 case workers at the ISA reveals that those referred could be permanently blocked from work if aspects of their home life or attitudes are judged to be unsatisfactory.
It says case workers should be “minded to [...]

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1,000 airport workers sign-up for ID cards

Posted at Friday, February 19th, 2010 by andrew

Alice McKeegan writes in the Manchester Evening News:
More than 1,000 Manchester airport workers have voluntarily signed up for ID cards.
All staff who work ‘airside’ – beyond airport security – are eligible to get a free card as part of the regional roll-out of the ID cards scheme.
So far more than 1,000 airport workers have been [...]

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DNA database missing profiles of thousands of prisoners

Posted at Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by andrew

Alan Travis writes in the Guardian:
Thousands of convicted prisoners do not have their DNA profiles logged on the police national database despite it being the largest in the world, the Home Office has admitted.
Ministers have told the Conservative home affairs spokesman, Damian Green, that they are unable to say how many prisoners are on the [...]

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How serious are Tories with database rollback promises?

Posted at Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 by andrew

Jennifer Scott writes in ITPro about a speech by Conservative Shadow Minister for Justice Eleanor Laing MP to a Westminster eForum meeting:
Proposals to see “fewer not more databases” and to “where possible [allow] personal data [to] be controlled by individual citizens” seemed to gain good reaction from the attendees, but Laing could not guarantee such [...]

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