Lynne Featherstone

MP for Hornsey and Wood Green

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Another day, another set of tales about data being lost

Back in January I blogged about the Government’s record at losing data (they lose lots of it, year after year). So this blog posting caught my eye – which lists a whole set of other instances of the Government losing our data in the last few weeks.

There’s one common conclusion from all the cases – the more data the Government has about us, the more that ends up getting lost with all the risks to privacy and identity theft that follow. Which is another good reason to be opposed to their plans for a mandatory national ID cards scheme (in addition to the many other reasons – such as its huge cost; the money could be far better spent on other, more effective crime-fighting measures).

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Fri 29 February 2008
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  1. North Londoner says:

    I have put the BBC report (featuring yourself Lynne!) into the mess Haringey Council made of personal data in Crouch End up on YouTube

  2. dreamingspire says:

    Which reminds me… The LD run HO Watch blog managed a huge total of 3 articles in Feb, and on Feb 13th they posted a comment “this site is now getting up to speed once more”. Eh? Can you ask your mate Chris H about this, please?

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