Bad stuff
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 Monday, January 26th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Political engagement, What do we want?
Couple of nuggets in Obama’s weekly address: To lower health care cost, cut medical errors, and improve care, we’ll computerize the nation’s health record in five years, saving billions of dollars in health care costs and countless lives. Hey! Why dont we sell them NPfIT/CfH? On second thoughts…let’s just see how they go about it. […]
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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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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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