Rebecca Todd writes in eHealth Insider: GP IT expert Dr Paul Cundy has resurrected concerns about threats to patient confidentiality in the draft Health and Social Care Bill. Dr Cundy, who is joint chairman of the BMA and RCGP’s joint IT committee, has written an open letter outlining his concerns about the impact of the [...]
David Cameron, writing in the Daily Telegraph, announces that the government will shortly begin releasing data on individual pupils held in the National Pupil database: From June, we will release data about the performance of all pupils from the National Pupil Database. Of course, it will be anonymous, but you will be able to see [...]
Nick Pickles writes in LibDem Voice: There is also a broader question that should be asked much more frequently – how much information is needed to provide the service in the first place? Big Brother Watch will be talking much more in future about the tendency of organisations in both the public and private sector [...]
Mark Say writes in The Guardian: One of the rumbling debates over the past few years, pressed energetically by some privacy activists, has been around potential new models for managing personal data held by government. It was picked up by a few people in the Conservative party before the general election, and has often been [...]
Mark Townsend writes in The Observer: Border agency officials are conducting unlawful passport checks on buses to try to catch illegal immigrants, a previously undisclosed tactic that has infuriated civil liberties campaigners. Documents seen by the Observer reveal that staff from the UK Border Agency have been “regularly” targeting coaches at bus stations “to prevent [...]
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