If there is a desire to increase public confidence in official figures, it will certainly not happen overnight. They would need to break through the …

Do you remember Information Sharing Orders, to allow Ministers to override the Data Protection Act by fiat, smuggled into the “Coroners and Criminal Justice Bill” at the end of last year.

Well, Plan B to circumvent the Data Protection Act may have surfaced: rather than sharing data we will all have an “Integrated Citizen Record”.

The Police are asking people to provide a DNA sample in order to rule them out of an investigation into a rape and murder case.
I …

Despite the DNA database storing of thousands of samples being declared illegal, the government intends to carry on storing them for years. Six years as …

Sometimes you can’t help but think the government is just making up ways to get hold of our details, with the most recent database they …

- and another for us.
ContactPoint, the database to include the details of all under-18s, will be accessible by more than 330,000 state workers. But the …

These aren’t just any old ministerial papers that James Purnell left on a train. These were far worse things to lose: a letter from an …

For crying out loud:

Analysis shows that beyond the child benefit fiasco, Government departments were last year losing data at the rate of more than 300,000 …

Just over a month ago, I published a blogpost entitled “Data Privacy… Not Labour’s Strong Point” after two ministers had their Cabinet briefing notes photographed, …

From the BBC:

ID cards ‘could threaten privacy’

What do you mean could threaten privacy? They most certainly do! And beyond that, it is also possible to …