WRITTEN ON June 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Cracking speech by Dame Pauline Neville-Jones. She concludes:
As I made clear at the start, the individual is the rightful owner of personal information and the state is merely possessor and should behave as a responsible custodian. We need to roll back the advance of Big Brother and restore this fundamental right of our citizens. Restoring privacy today must mean a clear statement on the part of those who have custody of personal information of their purpose in retaining it and of their commitment to its proper management. This will necessarily involve a review of most of the government’s centralised databases, their use and access to them regulated. It leads to the unavoidable conclusion that that the Information Commissioner should emerge as one of the important offices of state in the twenty first century.
Right on, Dame Pauline. But take the next step: the individual is also the right point of integration for personal data. That’s how to deliver personalised services in a flexible, just, legal and cost-effective way.
2 Responses to ““The individual is the rightful owner of personal information””
Hi William (and all)
We exchanged e-mails in Nov 2005 and I realised finding your reply I don’t think I ever posted here as per your kind invite.
I continue to maintain a site and since Apr 2006 a blog ‘Welcome to the QUAD’ which features an eclectic range of items across health, social care, informatics and education.
The site and blog concerns a universal conceptual framework called Hodges’ model:
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
If you recall the model’s four knowledge domains are represented in four links resources:
POLITICAL:
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksIV.htm
I hope this resource and blog (please see the tags) proves of interest.
Best regards,
Peter Jones
Lancashire
UK
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http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
Hodges Health Career – Care Domains – Model
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
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oh was about to post this, and you beat me to it! I think she does well to echo the Cameron laws of identity, and note that ‘guidelines’ etc don’t mean much unless they are enforced. In that way, her speech hints at the cultural/behavioural aspects of these issues (she’s pretty clear about the arrogant and/or unthinking way current government seems to approach issues of privacy). It’s this aspect of the way forward on which I’d like to see more thinking developed.