Why the Hustle Mr Blunkett?
Meanwhile, the head of e-Government at the Cabinet Office has also been giving interviews to the BBC. ‘For many the ID card itself is not as worrying as the database that the government wants to create to hold information about individuals and possibly be accessed by a variety of government agencies.But that is not currently on Mr Watmore’s radar.”It is technologically impossible and is not today’s big worry. Plans for how we share information is in the early days,” he said. [sic]’ This is very mysterious, since it is hardly a matter of high technology to give everyone an unique identifying number that can be used as a cross-reference (even if ensuring the databases are all consistent is difficult). Nor is letting many agencies access the NIR, whatever the civil liberties and security objections.
