17 Nov 2008

Privacy impact assesments: so will they happen?

I see Sir Bonar is on the case with measures to shore up the data leakages. One thing he didnt mention, which I thought the O’Donnell review committed to, was privacy impact assessments. Note this question in Parliament from Frances Maude (which, as far a I can see, was not yet answered): 

I remind the Minister that his responsibility is for data security across government. He will know that one of the recommendations—or, rather, requirements—of Sir Gus O’Donnell’s report was for all Departments to introduce privacy impact assessments so that threats to data security could be considered properly. Why, then, has the Home Office refused to provide such an impact assessment for the identity cards project, why has the Department of Health refused to draft one for the NHS Spine project, and why has the Department for Children, Schools and Families refused to provide one for the ContactPoint children’s database? How can we trust the Government to protect the privacy of law-abiding citizens when they systematically ignore their own requirements?

 
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