WRITTEN ON Thursday, August 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?

Hurrah! The gold-standard benighted ID card protects us from dangerous radicals like Adam Laurie….for about 12 minutes (says the often vile Daily Mail): With a few more keystrokes on his computer, Laurie changes the cloned card so that whereas the original card holder was not entitled to benefits, the cloned chip now reads ‘Entitled to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

WRITTEN ON Friday, July 31st, 2009 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?

Writing on Microsoft’s Technet, Jesper M. Johansson has produced a well-reasoned article about ID. Part 1 of his article explains the impossibility – and folly – of trying to bind a person with a single identity; and how such a system would cause many more problems than it would solve. Does the UK IPS have […]

WRITTEN ON Friday, July 31st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, What do we want?

WRITTEN ON Monday, July 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?

Her Majesty’s Government’s CIO discusses on his new blog the 10-year future of the IT industry. He asks us to consider a world where: The concept of desktop disappears…payment comes from infrastructure as a service…things like ERP become a sequence of transactions…the number of data centres will be dramatically reduced… Public and private clouds will […]

WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

Smart Healthcare is carrying an article by me about health records, opposition policy and VRM: This isn’t a rerun of 1979. It’s not about public sector versus private sector. It’s whether such services should be provided by monopolies or devolved to individuals served by a new breed of companies dedicated to working on their behalf […]

WRITTEN ON Monday, July 20th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, What do we want?

More criminologists have pointed out the poor statistical analysis behind the Home Office’s DNA database plans, says The Guardian: “Flawed scientific thinking” in the government’s proposed changes to the DNA database will leave it open to further challenges by the courts, experts have said, in a stark attack on Home Office plans to overhaul the […]