Thursday, August 31, 2006
All your children belong to us II
In the Telegraph here we have a report about a: "new database that will store details of every child in England and Wales" (Note North Britain is missing).
The Telegraph report is about the dual standards that will apply in that: "addresses and telephone numbers of celebrities will be removed from the database". Typically of ZaNuLabour the term celebrity isn't defined, as we've come to expect the standard platitude of "It's for the children" was wheeled out as: "Police, doctors and social workers had contact with Victoria as she suffered 128 injuries, but failed to discuss the case with one another."
Yes and that case was appalling, but let us not lose sights of the facts, which boiled down to 1) Criminal actions by a person in a position of trust. 2) Useless ineffective government employees failing to do their jobs, none have been sacked.
So basically because the government, despite paying high wages and pensions out of all the taxes extorted from us, can't effectively employ and manage police, doctors and social workers, the rest of us have to pay for and have this database.
This database isn't some non-contentious thing only civil liberty freaks are concerned about as "Parliament's Information Commissioner ... is understood to warn that the index is causing serious concern and is possibly unlawful. There are fears that it does not comply with the European Convention on Human Rights and may contravene the Data Protection Act."
So really it's a typical ZaNuLabour control policy.
As to how it's proposed to "work": "Schools, doctors, the police and private-sector bodies will alert the system to such warning signals as low birth weight, poor exam results and a parent's depression or addiction. Two warning "flags" on a child's record may trigger an investigation."
Won't this put parents off from going to the doctor? Why not add in obesity? That way you can be "picked up" for both low and high weight.
I quote again from the article:
"Prof Ross Anderson, an author of the report sent to the Information Commissioner, expressed concern about security.
"There will always be bent insiders. If you connect all these systems up and if you've got over a million professionals needing to access this every day it will all get out.
"Paedophiles for example can use the database to find out which children in their neighbourhood are vulnerable and where they live.""
Oh well there's no need to worry after all: ""There will be extremely strict controls. No one other than practitioners will be able to access any information...""
Hang on a moment aren't those the police, doctors and social workers, in other words the same competent people whose inactions produced an envirnoment favourable to the abusers of Victoria Climbie.
When will the Labour government learn failures of its incompetent staff can't be corrected by a computer, especially one run by those some incompetents.
The Telegraph report is about the dual standards that will apply in that: "addresses and telephone numbers of celebrities will be removed from the database". Typically of ZaNuLabour the term celebrity isn't defined, as we've come to expect the standard platitude of "It's for the children" was wheeled out as: "Police, doctors and social workers had contact with Victoria as she suffered 128 injuries, but failed to discuss the case with one another."
Yes and that case was appalling, but let us not lose sights of the facts, which boiled down to 1) Criminal actions by a person in a position of trust. 2) Useless ineffective government employees failing to do their jobs, none have been sacked.
So basically because the government, despite paying high wages and pensions out of all the taxes extorted from us, can't effectively employ and manage police, doctors and social workers, the rest of us have to pay for and have this database.
This database isn't some non-contentious thing only civil liberty freaks are concerned about as "Parliament's Information Commissioner ... is understood to warn that the index is causing serious concern and is possibly unlawful. There are fears that it does not comply with the European Convention on Human Rights and may contravene the Data Protection Act."
So really it's a typical ZaNuLabour control policy.
As to how it's proposed to "work": "Schools, doctors, the police and private-sector bodies will alert the system to such warning signals as low birth weight, poor exam results and a parent's depression or addiction. Two warning "flags" on a child's record may trigger an investigation."
Won't this put parents off from going to the doctor? Why not add in obesity? That way you can be "picked up" for both low and high weight.
I quote again from the article:
"Prof Ross Anderson, an author of the report sent to the Information Commissioner, expressed concern about security.
"There will always be bent insiders. If you connect all these systems up and if you've got over a million professionals needing to access this every day it will all get out.
"Paedophiles for example can use the database to find out which children in their neighbourhood are vulnerable and where they live.""
Oh well there's no need to worry after all: ""There will be extremely strict controls. No one other than practitioners will be able to access any information...""
Hang on a moment aren't those the police, doctors and social workers, in other words the same competent people whose inactions produced an envirnoment favourable to the abusers of Victoria Climbie.
When will the Labour government learn failures of its incompetent staff can't be corrected by a computer, especially one run by those some incompetents.
Tags: ZaNuLabour, liberty, rights, freedom
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