Data nitwittery
WRITTEN ON Saturday, March 21st, 2009 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell yesterday had to admit to yet another isolated incident….
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, March 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Terri at ARCH spots this piece in the Yorkshire Post TWO major security glitches in a Government database of 11 million English children have raised fears that the most vulnerable are being put at risk. A third of England’s 150 local authorities did not sign off on the first phase of ContactPoint scheme by the […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 19th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Another immensely sane ruling from a German court, this time the Verwaltungsgericht in Wiesbaden: As the first German court, the Administrative Court of Wiesbaden has found the blanket recording of the entire population’s telephone, mobile phone, e-mail and Internet usage (known as data retention) disproportionate. The decision published today by the Working Group on Data […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, March 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
The “toxic soup for all” clause 152 is to be dropped it seems (Telegraph): Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, is to shelve proposals which critics said would have led to patients’ confidential medical records being passed to third parties. A spokesman for Mr Straw said the “strength of feeling” against the plans had persuaded him […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Transformational Government, What do we want?
There’s some confusion at the D’oH! about who is the servant and who the master: NHS bosses leading the rollout of the Summary Care Record are refusing to take no for an answer from patients who say they want to opt out, Pulse can reveal. GPs in the first wave of the rollout are being […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Guess what. Now we’ve spent loads of money on them and wrecked local infrasrtucture, it seems large databases are unfashionable. Richard Bacon MP of the Public Accounts Committee manages to get a word in edgeways against Johannes Humphrissimus Maximus Interromptor about the world-famous largest ever civilian IT project the NHS’s NPfIT/Connecting for Health: “I think […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, January 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Transformational Government, What do we want?
This is a problem. Full text is below, but here’s the toxic clause para 152 of the proposed Coroners and Justice Bill and what it would add to the Data Protection act: Subject to the following provisions of this Part, a designated authority may by order (an “information-sharing order” ) enable any person to share […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
And the data nitwittery continues apace, with new rules to allow the abuse of our data on an industrial scale:(from Guardian) Controversial fast-track powers to remove the barriers to the widespread bulk sharing of personal data across Whitehall departments and throughout the public sector were unveiled yesterday by the justice secretary, Jack Straw. The powers […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
I’ve put some thoughts on the appointment of the new Information Commissioner Chris Graham on my personal blog If the appointment is confirmed after the MPs’ hearing, Chris will take over as our only real official bulwark against official secrecy, surveillance society and database state. Our bulwark is their obstacle – to data sharing, CRM-driven […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, January 12th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Conditions remain highly favourable to those wishing to steal our data from govermment. See this report from the FT (cheers Glyn!). Loss of 30m files fails to end risky procedures By Rob Minto Published: January 12 2009 02:00 | Last updated: January 12 2009 02:00 Staff in some of the biggest government departments, as well […]
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