Cpontactpoint problems

David Hansen ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:18:43 -0000


<http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/articl
e5962974.ece> outlines some of the problems with this nightmare system.

"Some adopted children whose identities should be shielded are listed 
on the database by both their original and their adopted surnames, with 
a link between the two."

"In other instances, shielding simply disappears from the records of 
vulnerable children every time that the database is updated 
automatically from central government databases, such as the school 
census or the child benefit database."



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  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
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