Here we go again, another leaked proposal from government attempting to justify building a huge great database of personal information. This one is supposedly about ‘improving access for citizens’, that almost takes us back to the old entitlement card proposal – you know, the one before the ‘better statistics one, the better security one.
…I wish they would just come out and be honest with us citizens and say they want to save a lot of money in running the country. On the other hand, that does not sound sexy enough to outweigh the massive increase in privacy invasion that will go along with it.
No doubt this one will rumble around for a few months with lots of posturing and no significant discussion of the actual underlying issues – the cost/ benefit to the individual of data on them being shared across government (and beyond).
