http://idealgovernment.com/2009/01/big_central_government_databases_are_out_of_fashion/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://idealgovernment.com/2009/01/big_central_government_databases_are_out_of_fashion/comment-page-1/#comment-2741 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:10:36 +0000 http://big_central_government_databases_are_out_of_fashion#comment-2741 What Rosemary Bennett forgets about ContactPoint is that (a) it is a ‘green-field’ database so it doesn’t inherit any of the mainframe-era legacy security policies that only work as far as the door to the datacentre and which still plague so many of the older national databases; and (b) was designed sufficiently long after the early, publicly embarrassing data losses that it really does have security designed into it from the start. No, honest. 🙂

]]> http://idealgovernment.com/2009/01/big_central_government_databases_are_out_of_fashion/comment-page-1/#comment-2742 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:25:26 +0000 http://big_central_government_databases_are_out_of_fashion#comment-2742 Sadly, I suspect that this newfound scepticism of database projects has more to do with the need to save money than any deep-seated recognition of the dangers such projects present. Still, it’s better than nothing!

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