Bad stuff
WRITTEN ON Friday, June 26th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
The Lords’ Constitution Committee has given its verdict on the government response to its report Surveillance: Citizens and the State we are disappointed that the Government’s response does not fully appreciate the danger posed by surveillance to privacy and the relationship between individuals and the state. We regret that the Government have not agreed to […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, 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. […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Official fibbing/bad stats, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Over at Ctrl-Shift Ive tried to sketch out the impact of VRM (buyer-centric commerce, customer-managed relationships, user-driven identity) on public services: It seems to me the effects of VRM on public services will be of four sorts. It will improve public services. It will cut costs. It will de-tox the “database state”. And it is […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, April 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Someone I’ve never heard of called Delyth Morgan of Drefelyn writes to me in my capacity as a ContactPoint National Partner (I had no idea I was one. How did I get on this database. More to the point, how do I get off?) Anyway, Delyth of Drefelyn says I’m writing to you because of […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
The EU is to take action against Britain over its poor implementation of online privacy, says Reuters. The European Commission started legal action against Britain on Tuesday for what the EU executive called a failure to keep people’s online details confidential. EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding said the action related to how Internet service providers […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, April 10th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Watch out Goliath. First the Godalming Quakers decided they were “acting under concern” about the database state. That’s pretty much as strong as language gets in the Society of Friends before it’s deemed to be “provocative”. Now the Oaklands medical practice of Yateley Hampshire has ripped gloves off in its fight against the database state, […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, April 4th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Here are Ian Brown’s slides from a talk he did at the Privacy OpenSpace conference in Berlin based on the JRRT Database State work.
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WRITTEN ON Monday, March 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Personal data is valuable. Government has twigged that, which is why it’s trying to grab so much: it’s the oil of the new economy. But just how much personal data does government hold? The JRRT Database State report mapped out the top 46 or so government databases. But I had no idea hom much data […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, What do we want?
The database state can be a bit heartless with bereaved parents. This poignant example from the Beeb is far from Ideal: The parents of a girl who died suddenly have received a school letter demanding she improves her attendance. The letter, dated 16 March, said “students must have at least 92% attendance and Megan’s is […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?
Well, did the caring Department of Health receive the ministry of our JRRT report in a tender and creative spirit, and consider it might be mistaken? Not exactly, according to Smart Healthcare: “It is simply wrong to claim that the Summary Care Record and other aspects of the National Programme for IT are unlawful,” said […]
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