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your thoughts - data protection
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Hi - i,m new!
Anyway, i,m intrested in the UK Data Protection Act.
I would just like to know your views about it.
In particualr, do you think the UK government is serious about data protection?
Having just watched the news a while ago about the tax frauds, i feel that there not.
Plus, searching through the BBC news website, i read a very intresting article about the inland revenue selling information to the press.
Anyway, whats your thoughts about it?
Do you think the UK government is serious about data protection?
Thanks and i look forward to your reples
Alex
Anyway, i,m intrested in the UK Data Protection Act.
I would just like to know your views about it.
In particualr, do you think the UK government is serious about data protection?
Having just watched the news a while ago about the tax frauds, i feel that there not.
Plus, searching through the BBC news website, i read a very intresting article about the inland revenue selling information to the press.
Anyway, whats your thoughts about it?
Do you think the UK government is serious about data protection?
Thanks and i look forward to your reples
Alex
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I've used both the data protection and FOI, and I can happily tell you that if it's an akward question it won't get answered. If you ask the same question again you get blacklisted as being "vexatious".
The only time I have got an answer took 6 months of badgering to acquire and I had to prove I couldn't "reasonably acquire the answer from another source". Usual government lip-service to the idea of accountability.
Go and ask the council how much of YOUR money they waste on some jumped-up braindead twat (also called a Chief Executive), and see how quickly they respond.
simple, stop paying taxes, dont use government services, live rough in the wild
What "government services" would these be?
They have sold everything off, mate.
That being said I'll happily pay for anything that I have used, once they provide me with something of substance to pay with, a contract for both of us that's binding if and when either I don't pay or they fuck up and the means to refuse any service which I don't like or to provide them in another way myself.
You know, like everyone else does, through voluntary association.
Just been reading on a website about these ID cards, and how they plan to store all the data onto a database.
The database will bascially have every detail about you on there...how secure will this be?
I somewhat still think that this government is not serious about data protection.
Secure against who? The people most likely to kill/kidnap/rob/injure you are the ones in charge of it in the first place.
Why the hell is the general perception of the "government" that they are there to protect people? The word means to control for lord's sake.
Probably not very. They have a habit of muffing IT related things up.
From the work we've done around data protection the laws seem extremely robust, especially around the protection of sensitive information.
As to access to information, anecdotally it seems pretty poor - though Mark Thomas managed some good results.