Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

UK Switches Off £235M Child Database

Posted by timothy on from the after-all-they've-grown-up dept.

wdef writes "The UK's controversial ContactPoint database has actually been switched off! It's rare that we hear anything this sensible from government about an expensive, privacy-destroying, 'think of the children' solution: 'The government argued the system was disproportionate to the problem, so is looking at developing other solutions.' Perhaps the UK coalition government really is winding back Big Brother, as they had promised to do? Does seem unlikely."

1 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. It isn't a reasonable thing to do by Epeeist · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't assume that the database has been switched off based on some valid arguments. The new government is one of the most ideologically driven ones the UK has had in many decades. Lots of its initiatives seem to be driven by an urge just to slash and burn anything that runs counter to their neo-con dogmas. In this they are continuing the work of both Thatcher and Blair.

    As for the Lib Dems, they are irrelevant. I suspect that they will be wiped out in both local elections and the next general election.