Gordon Brown today admitted the Government cannot promise to keep
safe the millions of pieces of sensitive personal information it has
gathered on the British public.
The Prime Minister's remarks came
amid an urgent inquiry into how a memory stick with user names and
passwords for a key Whitehall computer system was found in a pub car
park, James Slack writes in the Daily Mail:.
Mr Brown said:
'It is important to recognise that we cannot promise
that every single item of information will always be safe because
mistakes are made by human beings. Mistakes are made in the
transportation, if you like the communication of information.'
This dovetails in quite nicely with his declaration before a court in February that Labour's Manifesto pledges are worthless, that they are not subject to legitimate expectation.
So they lied to you about their agenda, and they have now admitted that they lied to you about being able to keep all your personal data safe.
In fact, they have made false representations which is fraud.
The Libertarian Party said that as a first step the £4.5 billion ID cards scheme should now be scrapped immediately.
Other
major projects that need to be scrapped include a £12.7bn NHS NPfIT system for the
electronic storage and sharing of patients' records, ContactPoint – a database containing sensitive details about every
child in the country, due to be launched next year, and the £12bn Central Database holding details of every
phone call, text message, email or website visited by every person in
the UK to name but a few.
The Libertarian Party is committed to scrapping all of the intrusive databases that the government operate or are planning, including the ANPR database, the National DNA database (except for those who have been convicted of serious crime), the national fingerprint database (except for those who have been convicted of serious crime), the PNR (passenger name record database), the HIPS database and the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS) which links tax records with social security, benefit, pension, ISA, TESSA, PEP and other investment information with names and addresses and national insurance information.
It has also emerged that a public official is sacked or reprimanded
almost every working day for data protection or other personal
information breaches.
Parliamentary answers received from four
Government departments alone reveal that at least 230 officials were
disciplined or dismissed in the last year for inappropriate handling of
sensitive data.
Analysis of reports of data breach notifications
reveals the Government has lost the personal information of nearly 30
million people in the last year.
It is not good enough that Government collect this data initially, and now it is clear that the Government cannot safeguard your data, and Gordon Brown's admission today only confirms that.
The Libertarian Party view is that Government should therefore not collect this data in the first place.
The
Libertarian
Party
is the only party that has promised to put an end to this Politics of
Fear, scrap all these intrusive databases, and repeal the many thousands of draconian laws enacted over the past
11
years.
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