Bad Idea: UK Launches Database Of Info On Every Child
from the who-thought-this-was-a-good-idea? dept
Apparently, some folks in the UK haven't yet realized that no database is fully secure, and any large database of info will almost certainly be abused at some point. In what appears to be a stunningly bad idea, the UK has put together a giant database including info on every child in the UK. The goal is for it to be used by childcare professionals, but you can bet it will be misused quite soon. As internet law expert Michael Scott notes: "Who thought this was a good idea? And why?"![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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the ONLY risk is from the internet
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DB perversion
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http://www.crn.com/security/217400074;jsessionid=YMZN5MA4DKAM2QSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN
(a nd my potential "conspiracy" take on this).
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=191967
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Medical Hackerbase
I�m sure my data is secure from hackers and will never be misused by insurance companies for nefarious purposes. HA!
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They forgot something very basic...
A pro vs. con list.
Pros: enables more money to be spent on a matter of very little priority, finding the 1 in big# of children abused.
Cons: enables more children to be abused.
The con list could be much longer, but it seems rather unnecessary considering the list has already put the decision into quite the conundrum.
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I have heard that ethnic data held by doctors in Rwanda and the Netherlands was gathered by purpetrators of genocide. It was recorded to help understand patient's needs. go figure.
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good-idea
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If the government manages this database as well as they manage everything else I think we'll be in a lot of trouble.
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And did you know that you can directly reply to a comment instead of copy-pasting it into another comment, thus breaking up the thread and making it a pain to track what you're saying?
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How long till...
Puhleez let it then show up somewhere on the net for the benefit of all the criminal paedophiles...
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Parenthetically: maybe we should be demanding /less/ IT-savvyness from our governments
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I would be Very Upset
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It gets worse
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Hacked
I'm in the UK and it never fails to amaze me what the jokers we elected for a government come up with next
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