Sunday, November 25, 2007

ARe we still thinking of a national ID card?

Well then, we need read these articles from Scotland's The Sunday Herald and keep in mind the recent loss of data by our Veteran's Administration.

Lost discs are last nail in the coffin of the ID card scheme:
THERE SHOULD be a time when any government know they have got it wrong: that's there's been one mistake too many; that an ambition has ceased to be achievable and has become a policy burden. For the Labour government under Gordon Brown, that limit has been reached on one key issue: identity cards. The pretence should now stop. This government are incapable of setting up, running and, crucially, keeping safe all the data that would be contained in a national identity register."
And Government: the real identity thief with this paragraph that sounds so American:
That hints, though, at the first thing worth observing about the fiasco of the child benefit records: the more the blind appetite for information increases, the greater the scale of the inevitable catastrophe. Once upon a time, a couple of letters might get stuck down the back of a filing cabinet. Now, with gargantuan ambitions come gargantuan failures. Thus: 2111 "breaches in security" within HMRC during the last year alone. Thus: the Department of Work and Pensions posting out 26,000 letters, with 26,000 sets of bank details, to the wrong people. Thus: 41 laptops, containing who knows what, stolen from tax officials in the space of 12 months.

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