Daily Archives: June 29, 2011


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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 people a right to call the shots over their own personal data. Plans to replace Labour’s ID scheme with a private sector system of identity assurance, which Computer Weekly revealed Cabinet Office had floated to industry in April, have led inevitably to a proposal for the private sector to become more active as custodians of people’s personal data as well. This is already happening to a large extent but, much to people’s dismay, the private sector seems less interested in being custodian than exploiter. He concludes: The government needs to act quickly to carry its […]

How Gov aimed to exploit personal data trade