Which one is that, please? I notice there's one not yet mentioned, concerning the details recorded about travel (including how one paid the fare), but don't yet know the 'official' name for that one.
Came across some Rowntree foundation report that of around 46 databases, only 6 weren't problematic (in a being illegal sense).
Computer Weekly has an article indicating some 15 billion pounds of IT projects are on the "hit list".
As most people working in IT know, government projects are notorious for being overdue and over budget (and regularly designed by some team of civil servants who didn't work with the 'end users' to find out what the end users need the software to provide for them, so the specifications have generally been inadequate or inflexible, or both, and subsequent "tweaks" are much of the reason for overdue, over budget.
One would have hoped they would learn from their errors but seems not to have been the case. Some of the points on the CW article:
? The scrapping of ID card scheme and the National Identity register (£4bn), the next generation of biometric passports and the Contact Point Database (£224m)
? Ending of storage of internet and email records without good reason (£12bn)
? Outlawing the fingerprinting of children at school without parental permission
? The extension of the scope of the Freedom of Information Act to provide greater transparency.
? Adopting the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database
? The protection of historic freedoms through the defence of trial by jury
? The restoration of rights to non-violent protest