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Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database'
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:44:01 +0000 (GMT)
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Fergie wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why does this strike me as a incredibly bad idea? :-) Via The Telegraph.co.uk.
Because you didn't know how incredibly incompetent the UK Gov is at doing anything with computers. It'll cost 10 billion instead of the estimated 1 billion, and it'll be delivered 20 years after schedule. And it won't work.
[snip] A huge Whitehall 'super-database' of people's personal details could be created in what the government says is a bid to improve public services. The move would mean relaxing regulations that restrict different parts of government from sharing information. Tony Blair is expected to unveil plans for the database in Downing Street on Monday, the BBC reports. [snip] More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/14/ndata114.xm l - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFqnRBq1pz9mNUZTMRAqhzAJ9N8tgjHnZyN0alEqaF4ALBGVwUswCfYWRI gCRuslT5A5FeNXf0xlZFC34= =HP2W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Fergie (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Drsolly (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Larry Seltzer (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Dennis Henderson (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Drsolly (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Larry Seltzer (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Dennis Henderson (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Drsolly (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' David Lodge (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' David Harley (Jan 15)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Larry Seltzer (Jan 14)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database' Drsolly (Jan 14)