03 May 2007

Still think we should have a National Identity Register?

It's worrying enough to read of the pig's-ear that's been made of this.
Hundreds of register offices across the country have been ordered to abandon a new online system for recording births, deaths and marriages in the latest IT fiasco to hit the government.
But then go to the end of the article for the reminder of how many government IT projects have bitten the dust. And then there's the clear precedent of function creep identified in this report: "State databases, the way the European Data Protection Supervisor talks about them in its annual report quickly grow beyond their function and not always with benign consequences for the people they have numbered." So, thank God for the failures -even if not for the waste of public moneys.
Chaos as register offices are told to abandon £6m computer system-News-Politics-TimesOnline

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