New Plan In UK For "Big Brother" Database

POPE Mad Mitch writes "The BBC is reporting that Tony Blair is going to unveil plans on Monday to build a single database to pull together and share every piece of personal data from all government departments. The claimed justification is to improve public services. The opposition party and the Information Commission have both condemned the plan as another step towards a 'Big Brother' society. Sharing information in this way is currently prohibited by the 'over-zealous' data protection legislation. An attempt to build a similar database was a key part of the, now severely delayed, ID card scheme."

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Government Data

[nurb432]

Is accessible by all agencies anyway, so having it in one place isnt really that big of a deal.

Now, once you start including private data ( such as ATM transactions, bookstore purchases, gas purchases, or private secuirty cameras ) and linking that data to governmental data, then we have some issues..