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The Government and Our Data

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Today Philip Johnston wrote a “concerned” article in the Daily Telegraph with regard to the “Ministry of Justice 1984 Straw” publishing something called the “Data Sharing Review” which will effectively enable them to by-pass any legal constraints to accessing database information from any person or organisation, including one assumes from the private sector, they pick upon and without giving any reason.

Should we be concerned ? The answer is very much that we should but not because of an Orwellian State the Labour Government is far too incompetent for that but simply because neither the Government nor the Civil Service, have a clue what they are dealing with and that is dangerous.

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