New Plan In UK For "Big Brother" Database

POPE Mad Mitch writes "The BBC is reporting that Tony Blair is going to unveil plans on Monday to build a single database to pull together and share every piece of personal data from all government departments. The claimed justification is to improve public services. The opposition party and the Information Commission have both condemned the plan as another step towards a 'Big Brother' society. Sharing information in this way is currently prohibited by the 'over-zealous' data protection legislation. An attempt to build a similar database was a key part of the, now severely delayed, ID card scheme."

oblig.

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, welcome our new public servant overlords.

C'mon

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't you want to be Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes [samizdata.net] in the UK? What is the problem?

Re:Scale & Risk

[alshithead]

"Lets hope this dosen't get traction, but as with most things 'New Labour', I can only imagine this is signed and sealed now that the public are being made aware"

Is "dosen't" a UK spelling I'm not familiar with? :)

Big Brother?

[AndroidCat]

If they care so much about that TV show, why don't they just Google it rather than making their own trivia database?

Re:Scale & Risk

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the correct term for an unskilled labourer (or apprentice) who works with a museum curator.

Re:Scale & Risk

[mrogers]

At the moment if i move i have to update all the different agencies. Banks, Telcoms, Electricity, Tax offices, Immigration(if needed), Government support ( pensions etc ), voting enrolment. Now imagine they are all linked and i phone a single number and POOF. All changed at once.

No problem - just send me your bank account details, social security number, name, address, phone number and date of birth and I'll take care of everything. I won't even charge you for the service.

See, it's true - privatising government services saves money!

Re:Tony Blair is a real scumbag

[clickclickdrone]

>No offence but your takeaway sucks
There are one or two good chains but on the whole, yes, you're right.
>what is the orange stuff on sandwiches and don't tell me it's cheese
Orange? God knows! Especially in a sandwich. Cheese is usually sort of yellow. Oh, it could have been Red Leicester but that's usually a bit more, well, reddish.
Basically, if you had something orange in your sandwich and lived, be happy ;-)

Re:Civil Rights: USA or Europe?

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

OK, I give up. I'm a "glass half full" person. Which one am I supposed to choose? :-/