Cpontactpoint problems

[Peter Tomlinson]

Pete Mitchell wrote:
> David Hansen wrote  on 24-03-09 09:18:
>> <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."
> Not that schools can be trusted to use their childrens' data ethically 
> anyway ...
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7963081.stm
> "The parents of a girl who died suddenly have received a school letter 
> demanding she improve her attendance."
>
> The more power we give to incompetents, the more incompetently we will 
> be ruled.
>
Time to drop this one in, perhaps. I would like to see the Cabinet 
Office Information Assurance policy (last seen as IA 07, against which 
members of this list wrote because that version was terrible [1]) taken 
out of the cabinet, rewritten, and given to an enlarged Information 
Commissioner.

Peter

[1] http://www.fipr.org/egov-framework.pdf

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/08/22/226310/national-information-assurance-strategy-is-too-little-too-late-says.htm