Mark Ballard writes on the Computer Weekly web site: The £3bn trade in tip-offs about people caught in car accidents has exposed the seedy side of the personal data market. Seedier still are draft government plans to cash in on this bonanza when it ought to be sticking to the Tory manifesto promise to give [...]
Computing magazine reports: The Home Office has refused to back down in the face of a concerted campaign from Labour MPs to retain the DNA profiles of suspects, who are not subsequently convicted, on the DNA database. Junior Home Office minister James Brokenshire accused Labour MPs demanding continued retention of the records of being “very [...]
The Daily Mail reports: Patient records are to be stored on the internet for the first time prompting concern confidential data could be vulnerable to attacks by hackers. The NHS is trialing a new way of storing patient’s medical records which could spell the end of paper records kept at individual GP surgeries. From next [...]
Helen Gibson writes in Progress magazine: One of the first coalition policies to be announced in 2010 was a plan to grant anonymity to men accused of committing rape. This had not been a policy in either the Tory of Liberal Democrat manifesto, and yet appeared to be cooked up by the cabal of eight [...]
Jerry Fishenden writes in Computer Weekly: The government’s new identity assurance strategy is a significant and welcome change of direction. Until last year, the Identity Cards Act sought to provide government with monopoly ownership of our identity. But now the Act has been repealed and proposals brought forward to let us choose our own identity [...]
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