Lax standards of Data Protection
March 16, 2008 2:53 PM
A Channel 4 News story says that parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has criticised "lax standards" of data protection in government and a "cavalier attitude" to protecting privacy in Whitehall. Meanwhile, the British Computer Society has published a survey of 14 government departments which discovered that none of them held statistics of how many errors were on their databases, nor had a budget to correct them. In light of these reports, the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne, (who will be visiting Oakham to talk to us in the autumn) has reiterated his call for the national identity card scheme to be scrapped: "The British public have shown themselves to be rightly sceptical of the unnecessary and illiberal ID cards scheme. Recent catastrophes involving personal data clearly demonstrate the inability of the Government to handle sensitive information. The ID card scheme should be scrapped immediately, and the money used to put 10,000 extra police officers on our streets."
(Thanks to PICS)
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