Child Database For The Near Future?

jambutty · 28-11-2006, 15:49

If New Labour has its way this database is on the cards.

The government is proposing to spend over £200m on a database that contains the details of every child in the country. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/09/nchild09.xml
and
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3bjsessionid=GAY0HVVSYGVX5QFIQMFCFGGAVC BQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/11/22/nchild22.xml

Now will people believe that slowly but surely the British citizen is being herded into a corner from which there will be no escape except by emigration or death.

andrewb · 28-11-2006, 17:35

Forget the figure of 200m.. every IT project the government has been involved in has run WAY over budget..

We need some liberal thoughts back into our system. Having databases on our kids, databases on our dna, we should fight against having such huge sources of information that can be used to make the government money and things.. we elect them to run the country not our lives.

jambutty · 28-11-2006, 18:11

Can I suggest that you meant to write lateral rather than liberal Cyfr?

garinda · 28-11-2006, 18:14

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Originally Posted by jambutty

Can I suggest that you meant to write lateral rather than liberal Cyfr?

Why? He's a Conservative with a small c, with admitted liberal leanings.

He probably did mean to write liberal. He doesn't often write what he doesn't mean.

andrewb · 29-11-2006, 23:35

I ment liberal, but lateral would fit too, at least I think.