Data nitwittery
WRITTEN ON Monday, December 22nd, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Hang on. Bob Quick says that by making it clear where he lives (in a leak to the loathsome MoS) the Tories have put the lives of his family at risk, because of the nature of his job. But putting our explicit details on ContactPoint (circ 450,000) and on the NHS secondary uses service (circ […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, December 19th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
The idea of user-driven data (also called buyer-centric commerce, customer managaged relationships, or vendor relationship management – VRM) offers a powerful antidote to the database state. Instead of endless central registers sharing data to form a sort of toxic soup, users (citizens, taxpayers, parents, patients – you and me) would be equipped with a data […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Sir Bonar writes: I thought it might be timely to dwell briefly on the matter of Data Protection and the quite staggering improvements we have made in this area. The background, as you probably know, is that there have been isolated incidents of data loss, generally of low-grade intelligence material which had already been lost […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
We can’t tell, of course. But the splendid Open Rights Group can help you start to make sense of it. Just click on the picture and fill out their survey:
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
I was pleased to hear that in a certain northern council the computer may be saying ‘no’ a little less often. [xxxxxxx] Borough Council has cancelled its subscription to Experian’s Mosaic customer segmentation system. At first they had been impressed by the promise of the Mosaic suite of products [which] forms a global network of […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
David writes in with a non-comment: I didn’t see this on Ideal Government today Quite right. I missed it. Cheers Dave. Here the ethnographer can observe the “normal percentage of nitwits and crooks” theory playing out entirely as foreseen: A corrupt police officer planned to make more than £2 million by using confidential details to […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, December 6th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
The meme that the European Court’s Michael Marper DNA judgment has fatal implications for unreconstructed Transformational Government is rolling now. See Henry Porter (hi Henry!) in the Guardian The unanimous judgment of the 17 judges held that the United Kingdom was incontestably in breach of Article 8 – the right to respect for privacy and […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 20th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Oh look – this outbreak of sanity in Scotland continues: The Scottish Parliament has voted against the UK Government’s plans to introduce ID cards. MSPs backed a Scottish Government motion stating the scheme would not increase security or deter crime, while raising concerns about civil liberties. Scots Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing said the estimated […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 13th, 2008 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Sir Bonar writes I thought it might be instructive, as part of our commitment to Open Government, if I shared with readers of Ideal Government a practical example of the workings of our Freedom of Information policy here at the the Office of the PM’s Technology Outreach Czar (OPMTOC). Freedom of Information does add a […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 6th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Jerry “The Thunderer” Fishenden has another important opinion piece in The Scotsman. Honorary Scot Jerry is Microsoft’s NTO, former head of IT in Parliament, and sits on this new Scottish privacy advisers council. He’s additional evidence that while not everything Microsoft does is good, it has for some years fallen into the happy habit of […]
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