Comments on: IdealGov creates new category in response to Murdoch tabloids http://idealgovernment.com/2009/03/idealgov_creates_new_category_in_response_to_murdoch_tabloids/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ruth Kennedy http://idealgovernment.com/2009/03/idealgov_creates_new_category_in_response_to_murdoch_tabloids/comment-page-1/#comment-2761 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:37:00 +0000 http://idealgov_creates_new_category_in_response_to_murdoch_tabloids#comment-2761 The Times piece finishes on a particularly pertinent note, quoting Anne Marie Carrie, the executive director of family and children’s services for the borough of Kensington & Chelsea. “If someone wanted to maliciously track down a child they had given up for adoption, this would make it easier for them to find their address and school,” she said.

“Some people are seeing this as an IT issue but, in reality, it is a child protection issue,” she said.

That seems like a really prescient comment. Is amassing personal data on vulnerable children, accessible by so many really going to increase child protection? Common sense – coupled with the knowledge of cases of public sector insiders using personal data for their own purposes – seems to suggest not.

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