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Database of All UK Children Launched

Posted by timothy on from the can't-help-but-think-of-'em-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'A controversial database which holds the details of every child in England has now become available for childcare professionals to access. The government says it will enable more co-ordinated services for children and ensure none slips through the net. 390,000 people will have access to the database, but will have gone through stringent security training.'"

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  1. Surely this can't continue forever? by realnowhereman · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://lpuk.org/

    I stumbled across this website last year. It is a very small (at present) political party. As far as I know, the only one who actively states they will scrap this state monitoring nonsense.

    Hopefully, some of the other parties will realise that people don't want to be monitored, and there are votes to be had out of it.

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  2. Re:Get them while they are young. by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Informative

    You do understand the difference between giving information willingly and having it forced out of you?

    If people want to tell everyone when they sit on the can, their biz. But don't expect me to tell you.

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  3. Re:not my children by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 4, Informative
    every child gets a birth certificate (unless you do a DIY home birth maybe)

    You go to jail if you dont register the birth within 30 days.

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  4. Re:Entries for English children arrested for racis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6047514.stm

    Good enough?

  5. Re:Database hits gnutella in 3 ... 2.... 1 by Ragein · · Score: 3, Informative

    Having worked for a local council as an IT Engineer I can state that I had the ability to re-set everyone's log on passwords including people who worked with child services, If Someone left the machine locked but with the db open I could have easily accessed it. The real problem with that was none of the Local council IT staff was required to have a crb check because they weren't working directly with children.

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  6. Re:Why? by digitig · · Score: 3, Informative

    Over time this is going to be a 1:1 census.

    In conjunction with e-borders, yes.

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  7. Same government with an 86% infection rate by myxiplx · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bear in mind folks that this is the same government who admit to an 86% infection rate *each year* among the 5,000 odd computers used at Westminster:
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/15/mp_malware_leak_risk/

    Yes, that's 4,300 infected machines a year, with 400 hit badly enough that they get cleaned manually (and I hope to god manual intervention means wipe and start again, but I doubt it somehow).

    So, that's a nigh on certainty that the login details for the database are already well known to 3rd parties then...