Are Some Databases Illegal?

BBC NEWS | UK | Call to scrap ‘illegal databases’ 

There are quite strong grounds for demanding new stringent rules to regulate government databases. There is even a question about the legality of some of them. So says Professor Ross Anderson - a “financial, ethical and administrative disaster” is how he describes the present situation. Click the link above to read more.

I have a feeling we needed someone to come out and say this fearlessly and loudly. We appear to have created a totally muddled, inefficent and therefore rather dangerous set of official databases. Not,of course, to mention the implications for confidentiality and natural or statutory  justice. What do you think?

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