I Am Not A Number

Lovely stuff: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11719764

The new Government is spending a fortune (quite rightly in my view) destroying the data compiled for the ID database. Two particular amusing/horrifying facts:

“... if the data it collected had been stored centrally as it was meant to be. But there is evidence that some was accidentally stored locally”

“Accidentally stored locally”??? So reassurances about the security of the data were... bullshit. Exactly as anyone with 3 brain cells insisted all along.

“Anti-ID card campaigners often warned about the dangers of storing all of the ID data in one place - making it potentially vulnerable to hacking, only to be assured by ministers from the previous government that this would not happen. So it is fascinating to read that there are two separate locations in the UK where all of the biometric and biographical information gathered by the ID card scheme is, or has been, stored.”

So ministers just lied. They said the data would be spread around to make it less vulnerable. But it was all stored together in one place. Two actually, so doubly risky.

It does make me really angry when I remember all the reassurances from Labour about how the data would be safe. Turns out it was all absolute bollocks. We knew they were lying to us, but they still smugly did it, knowing that they would never be held to account. Bastards!