Personal data collected - When will it be lost?

[Goldfinch]

Computerised records of all 250 million journeys made by individuals in and out of the UK each year will be kept for up to 10 years.
The government says the database is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and terrorism.
But opposition MPs and privacy campaigners fear it is a significant step towards a surveillance society.
The intelligence centre will store names, addresses, telephone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details of travellers.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7877182.stm

The government is building databases to track more and more of our movements. They alwys say that it is about security or personal protection.

But we have a government that just can't be trusted over highly sensitive issues.

In 2004, Richard Thomas, the information commissioner at the time, warned that Britain was "sleepwalking" into a surveillance society. Davies believes the situation has got worse. "When we categorise the privacy ratings of all the countries, Britain is already in the black category along with some pretty unpleasant societies."
technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5683392.ece

Evey day we hear of yet another way that the Government is going to track out lives. They tell us that if we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear. The fear is the government just cannot hold onto its data, and details of millions of people are going to end up in the wrong hands.
e.g.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7845024.stmnews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stmwww.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2205400/uk-government-warned-lossblogs.spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/2008/08/yet_another_major_uk_governmen.htmlwww.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_071574www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/1574687/Government's-record-year-of-data-loss.html

There is now so much held that any individual may not know if they have any incorrectly-ascribed information. Information that could magnified until it is out of hand and the individual concerned having no way of corecting it.

Out of control?

[Rude Eric]

What a total fantasy land you right wigeres are in. There is a war against terorism on, and wee need to keep trck of peeple.

[yord]

we know who and where the terrorists are , theyre in government

[Woolf]

It doesn't matter how secure the government says it will be.
They never consider the human factor.

All it takes is one coerced person, or one in the pay of a criminal organisation and all that data will be available to them.

That or someone will leave it on a train, just at the time when a big distraction is needed.

Or a prat will be in charge of dispatch.
A friend who worked at HMRC told me of how data can be easily lost.
The records HAD to get to a specific individual urgently.
They were burn onto a disc, addressed and then clearly marked urgent next day and that they should be sent using the deliver to person option.
Expensive, but they are only delivered to that one person and then signed for.
After a week, said person called and asked where was the disc.
After investigation the post room had ignored all the markings and sent them normal recorded delivery.
we know that the package was signed for at the front desk, it has never been found.
All to save several pounds.

[flatandy]

It'll be about as secure as my arse after a cabbage and bran jalfrezi.

[feral]

It's not what criminals would do with the data that concerns me so much it's what the government wants with it .

Computerised records of all 250 million journeys made by individuals in and out of the UK each year will be kept for up to 10 years.
The government says the database is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and terrorism.

Yea ...cos we ALL know that illegal immigrants and terrorists and criminals use a valid passport each time they travel

[Woolf]

That is because this bunch of tosser think being seen to do something as the same as actually doing something.