"Organisations should avoid creating large centralised databases of personal information and store personal and transactional data separately," said a statement outlining the plans. "People should only be asked for identity when necessary and they should be asked for as little information as possible."
Thursday, September 3, 2009
News: Scottish Government Seeks to Curb Data Collection
From the Register: The Scottish Government has proposed a series of ID management and Privacy Principles to constrain Public Bodies. These move away from the trend "of building up very large public databases of personal information.":
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However, the Scottish National Entitlement Card has been called the 'trojan horse ID card'. It provides each citizen with a unique number which is linked to a central database - the Citizen Account System . VisionWare has a contract for an adaptor to help keep the -'national data-sharing infrastructure continually updated'. It is (sort of) voluntary at present but I'm sure it will become increasingly difficult to manage without it. This sounds very like a large centralised database to me!
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