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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, We told you so..., What do we want?
Bloody marvellous. When the database state + Experian connive to wreck your life, there’s no comeback! So rules Bill Blair (brother of the devout war-mongerer himself) in a High Court judgment, reported by El Reg: An entrepreneur whose fledgling business was ruined by a false entry in a court database has had his claim for […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?
Nine local council staff have been sacked for illegal access to the ID database, says Computer Weekly. * Cardiff and Glasgow councils sacked staff after they looked up celebrities’ personal records * Tonbridge and Bromley councils sacked workers for looking up their friends * Brent sacked someone who looked at their girlfriend’s details * A […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?
ContactPoint database could put 11 million children at risk Every child in England could be at risk because of security failings in the Government’s controversial children’s database, experts have claimed. By Heidi Blake Published: 3:19PM BST 03 Aug 2009 ContactPoint is designed to help protect England’s 11 million children by giving officials a single register […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, August 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, We told you so..., What do we want?
It seems the mechanised state is slanderous (or libellous): Criminal Records Bureau errors lead to hundreds being branded criminals More than 1,500 people have been wrongly branded as criminals or mistakenly given a clean record by the government agency set up to vet those workin g with children, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. By Christopher […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, July 18th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, We told you so..., What do we want?
Ben “Bad Science” Goldacre has a careful look at the evidence provided to justify DNA database policy by the Jill Dando Institute of Inappropriate Shroudwaving: In fact, this study from the Jill Dando Institute, attached to their consultation paper as an appendix, is possibly the most unclear and badly presented piece of research I have […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
The database carrying the details of 11m children in the UK will be accessible by 390,000 users making the system highly vulnerable at thousands of endpoints. “Why the government has created this security headache in the first place, particularly when their track record on data handling raises serious questions, is something of a mystery”…said Richard […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, June 28th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Political engagement, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Bang. That makes a hat-trick of Ideal-Government agenda nails hit on the head by Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition this week. Liam Maxwell’s CPS pamphlet ‘It’s ours – Why we, not government, must own our data” is a must-read. And a tonic. Essentially it’s a long-overdue VRM manifesto for government IT, which also places a lot […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
[updated] Here’s a socking great Tweet from David Cameron to Imperial College. He lambasts control state Britain, ID cards, ContactPoint, RIPA and the surveillance state. These things are, as we have said many times, far form Ideal. But he goes on speak with some conviction and some detail on a positive agenda of transparency, accountabiliy […]
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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 Monday, June 22nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
While digging out old presentations I found this private briefing to (the xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx) Sir James Crosby who at the time was advising Gordon Brown about ID management. private briefing for Sir James Crosby by William Heath View more OpenOffice presentations from William Heath. The presentation set out the communications problems surrounding the ID debate so […]
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