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• Borders programme in disarray

  
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  Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph: A flagship £1.2 billion programme to collect data from every passenger travelling in and out of Britain was in disarray last night after a Government climb-down. The so-called e-Borders scheme was supposed to make it compulsory to collect information from everyone in ...
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• This parody of the nanny state helps neither children nor adults

  
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  Timothy Garton Ash writes in The Guardian about the Independent Safeguarding Authority and its database of those barred from working with children and “vulnerable adults”: The ISA reassures us on its website that anyone who may be barred will be told in advance and, “we will share with them all the ...
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• DVLA data powers likely to be abused by foreign officials

  
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  Chris Williams writes in The Register: Personal data belonging to nearly 40 million UK motorists is likely to be abused by foreign officials under new automatic access powers, according to a restricted official report. Drivers’ details such as name, address, motoring convictions and some medical information ...
  5 days ago

• ISA vetting to be watered down

  
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• Ed Balls under pressure to rethink entire vetting scheme

  
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  Martin Beckford writes in The Telegraph: Ministers are under pressure to carry out a complete rethink of the controversial vetting scheme for people working with children and vulnerable groups, despite a last-minute climbdown. Following a review of the scope of the world’s biggest anti-paedophile database, some ...
  6 days ago

• Heads’ leaders demand vetting scheme rethink

  
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  Irena Barker writes in the Times Educational Suplement: All England and Wales’ major headteachers’ leaders – private and state, primary and secondary -have joined forces to demand a complete rethink of new laws designed to protect children from paedophiles, calling them “disproportionate to risk”. The ...
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• How Government legislation is changing the nature of CRM

  
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  Dr. Kirstie Ball of the Open University Business Schools writes on the Utalk Marketing web site about how government uses of consumer data are changing the nature of ‘customer service?: Traditionally CRM [Customer Relationship Management] has been directed towards defining customer attractiveness and value. But ...
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• Believe it or not, Big Brother is your friend

  
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  David Aaronovitch writes in The Times: But this fashionable paranoia about data and surveillance goes well beyond annoyance at petty officaldom, and has become something of a mindset, as we will be reminded later today. The occasion will the publication of the Government’s response to last spring’s ...
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• Can we see your documents please, Your Majesty… Queen faces anti-terror checks every time she leaves UK

  
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  Jason Lewis writes in the Mail on Sunday: The Queen is to be forced to go through an identity check every time she flies into and out of Britain. For the first time, Her Majesty will be compelled to give her full name, age, address, nationality, gender and place of birth to immigration officials, who will then ...
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• Dont get an ID Card says ex-GCHQ worker

  
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  Fascinating views on ID Cards and the dangers of large State databases by Paul Robinson  who, at one time, worked on site at GCGQ and is now a consultant. Links: Database State - Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust - Ideal Government Paul Robinsons comment piece on ID Cards
  2 weeks ago

• Vetting database is mighty maths mess

  
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  John Ozimek, writing in The Register, highlights the likely inaccuracy of government estimates of the number of people who would be forced to register on the Independent Safeguarding Authority database: Home Office estimates for the eventual size of the vetting database look like becoming one of the most inelastic ...
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• Schools vet parents for Christmas festivities

  
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  Daniel Foggo and Jack Grimston write in the Sunday Times: Parents who want to accompany their children to Christmas carol services and other festive activities are being officially vetted for criminal records in case they are paedophiles. In the latest expansion of the government’s child protection agenda, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wikipedia doesn’t have all the answers

  
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  Mary Wakefield writes in the Independent: The Human Genetics Commission has reported that police are routinely arresting people to collect DNA for their exciting new database – as if somehow the more hi-tech information they gather the less crime there’ll be. I suspect the opposite may be true. This week I had ...
  3 weeks ago

• Innocent Until Sampled

  
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  According to the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion column: Matthew Zarb-Cousin, a Labour candidate for Thorpe Bay in Southend, wrote recently on Labourlist.org that “a database, where swabs of DNA are taken at birth—and of people coming into the country—is not only fair but also vital…. the only logical ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don’t take away the modern copper’s toolkit

  
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  Sean O’Neill writes in The Times: The same voices that sow alarm over DNA also complain loudly about the spread of the “surveillance society”. They fret about the rising number of CCTV cameras, quoting the guesstimate of 4.2 million cameras as fact. And they stoke up fear over proposals to create a central ...
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• UK national identity register is ‘up and running’

  
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  The BBC reports : The national identity register – the controversial database at the heart of the ID card scheme – is “up and running”, a new watchdog has told MPs. Sir Joseph Pilling said 538 people were on the database when he checked last week; all except one were UK nationals. Sir Joseph, the ...
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• Keeping a Low Profile

  
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  The Times leader writer comments on the Human Genetics Commission report on the National DNA database: There should be a clear and independent appeals procedure for unconvicted people who want their DNA removed. All police officers, those most likely to come into contact with suspects, should have their DNA ...
  3 weeks ago

• Data matching: a threat to privacy?

  
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  James Welch, Legal Director of Liberty, writes on the Guardian Comment is Free web site about data sharing across government departments: The concerns about data matching and mining are most acute when the government holds a lot of sensitive information on a single database. This was one of Liberty’s many ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tackling domestic violence

  
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  Deborah McIlveen of the Women’s Aid Federation of England, writing on the Guardian’s Comment is Free web site, has reservations about the data sharing proposed by the Association of Chief Police Officers as a way of addressing the problems of serial domestic violence: We are less confident about the wisdom of ...
  4 weeks ago

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