www.internetnews.com – Personal Data of Millions Lost in U.K. Security Breachnews.bbc.co.uk – Database of all Children LaunchedMore proof England is taking the novel 1984 literally…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8052512.stm
Here is the basics of the situation…
The government says it will enable more co-ordinated services for children and ensure none slips through the net.
It will hold the details of 11 million children and young people aged up to 18 years.
Don’t worry though access to the database is limited…
It says 390,000 people will have access to the database, but will have gone through stringent security training.
See they people with access to the database, you know the very few 390,000 of them, will have very good security training. Just like the British government, oh wait…
http://www.internetnews.com/breakingnews/article.php/3712501
But what could possibly be contained in this database? Well the following…
Name, address, date of birth, gender and contact details for parents or carers
Each child also has a unique identifying number
Details of the child’s school and GP practice and for other practitioners or services working with the child
Whether the practitioner is the lead professional for that child
I give it less then a year (and that’s being VERY generous) before the database is compromised and the information contained in it is leaked.