Sending data abroad

[David Hansen]

On 20 Feb 2009 at 12:03, Nicholas Bohm wrote:

> Some governments see the problem:  "Ottawa recalls sensitive database in
> B.C. border project - The federal government is repatriating a database
> of personal information about Canadian citizens after warnings the U.S.
> government might misuse it."

Good to see that some goverments have woken up from their  sleepwalk. 
Not all have done though.

Having decided to give a contract to those involved in torture at Abu 
Ghraib, the Scottish Government has been busy trying to claim that the 
data will not be passed to the USA [1] [2]. They must think we are more 
stupid than we look.

However, the Scottish Government is privy to attempts by the torturers 
to prevent this information being revealed to the public [3].


[1] their assertion is, "GROS will own all Scottish census data. The 
data will be processed in Scotland and remain here at all times in both 
paper and electronic formats. Only British and Irish registered 
companies will have access to personal census data - no US company has 
any access to the data."

<http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=624&catid=
33>

[2] "The Scottish Government says it "understands the views" of people 
who have written to it about the contract. It says it has set up a new 
"contract structure" to "distance" CACI from personal data collected by 
the census. But it refuses to cancel the contract."

<http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=605&catid=
29>

[3] "Members of SACC have been targetted with legal threats in letters 
dated 10th and 17th September from lawyers acting for CACI 
International. The material complained of is still on our website, as 
is an online petition calling for the contract to be cancelled. No 
legal action has yet been forthcoming and we are confident that our 
website sets out the facts of the matter fairly. But we are 
disappointed, to say the least, to find that an arm of the Scottish 
Government has been privy to CACI's attempts to censor Scottish 
campaigners and Scottish media."

<http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=627&catid=
27>



-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
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me   
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