Daily Archives: April 9, 2009


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Michael Cross, writing in the Guardian, thinks the Database State is an electoral gift to the Conservative Party: These gifts are likely to be deployed in the Conservatives’ first potentially election-winning manifesto in a generation. We have already been promised measures to cancel the ID card, and the government this week handed the opposition another treat by placing the largest chunk of the business with US-based firms. The legally compromised national DNA database would also be scrapped. If the government doesn’t get there first, the Tories have promised a close look at the NHS’s “hubristic supercomputer”, a reference to the NHS National Programme for IT in England. This too will be popular – though it could be awkward if the review concludes the problem is that the programme has spent too little, rather than too much, money.

Government IT policy is spoiling those Tories rotten