Archives: January, 2009
WRITTEN ON Saturday, January 31st, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Thursday 29 January 2009, Manchester The Home Secretary visits Manchester to explain how useful ID cards will be: While in Manchester the Home Secretary visited Newall Green High School in Wythenshawe to meet young people who could be some of the first to be able to apply for cards from 2010. Together they discussed how [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Eileen Munro tells it like it is in Guardian commentisfree Under Labour policy, the family’s relationship with the state is being subjected to a transformation that erodes their privacy and autonomy. It is being done in the name of child protection and “safeguarding” children. The aims appear honourable and desirable; it may seem obvious that [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, January 29th, 2009 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
“Taking Liberties” is the British Library’s current public exhibition, until 1st March 2009. It looks well designed and worth a higher profile. The exhibition aims to relate “the story of a 900-year struggle for rights and freedoms in the British Isles.”…
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, January 29th, 2009 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Late as always, I’ve finally searched out my records and completed the online SA Tax form. My tax affairs are reasonably simple but do require lots of small numbers from lots of different documents and sources. This year, even so close to the deadline, the HMRC website seemed fast and effective. There appeared to be [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Guess what. Now we’ve spent loads of money on them and wrecked local infrasrtucture, it seems large databases are unfashionable. Richard Bacon MP of the Public Accounts Committee manages to get a word in edgeways against Johannes Humphrissimus Maximus Interromptor about the world-famous largest ever civilian IT project the NHS’s NPfIT/Connecting for Health: “I think [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, January 26th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized
As momentum continues to build for more and more centralised IT (check out the start of Contact Point), another significant move in the other direction appears on the horizon. A gathering of geeks is set to work out how to get data out of government and make it useful! It’s on March 7 in London [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, January 26th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Political engagement, What do we want?
Couple of nuggets in Obama’s weekly address: To lower health care cost, cut medical errors, and improve care, we’ll computerize the nation’s health record in five years, saving billions of dollars in health care costs and countless lives. Hey! Why dont we sell them NPfIT/CfH? On second thoughts…let’s just see how they go about it. [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, January 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Transformational Government, What do we want?
This is a problem. Full text is below, but here’s the toxic clause para 152 of the proposed Coroners and Justice Bill and what it would add to the Data Protection act: Subject to the following provisions of this Part, a designated authority may by order (an “information-sharing order” ) enable any person to share [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, January 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, What do we want?
The Sunday Times exposes Experian corrupting our legislative process. It seems they paid a bent peer who agreed to amend legislation in the company’s favour. Lord Taylor of Blackburn claimed he had changed the law to help his client Experian, the credit check company. Taylor told the reporters: “I will work within the rules, but [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, January 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Have you heard about “cc all your emails to Jacqui Smith day”? You can sign up here. It strikes me as a good protest against the encroaching surveillance society: – it’s non-violent – it makes you reflect about the sort of emails which the super-benighted IMP will record – it’s pertinent and proportionate – it’s [...]
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