Britain must surely already fall very low on the privacy rankings. CCTV everywhere. Plans for ID cards. Now the Right Honourable Tony Blair wants to create a centralised government database to allow sharing of private information across departments.
From an IT perspective is it the right thing to do? Possibly. From a privacy and human rights perspective it the right thing to do, especially given the government's recent record with massive IT projects (think NHS). Almost certainly not!
From an IT perspective is it the right thing to do? Possibly. From a privacy and human rights perspective it the right thing to do, especially given the government's recent record with massive IT projects (think NHS). Almost certainly not!
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