Even before the Children's Index has been set up, two classes of membership have been devised: one for the offspring of people who are well known, and one for just about everyone else. The addresses and telephone numbers of celebrities will be taken off the database if their children are believed to be in danger of being kidnapped. Such details will also be removed for children who are at risk of suffering domestic violence. Yet, at the same time, the Education Department assures us that there will be "extremely strict controls" over access to the database. If this assurance is true, why do celebrities and their children require greater protection of their privacy than everyone else? The Government has trapped itself in a flagrant contradiction. Either the database is secure, in which case no additional safeguards are required, or it is not secure, in which case we find ourselves presented with yet another reason why the whole wretched project should be scrapped.
Telegraph | Comment | The Children's Index will turn all parents into suspects: Filed in: ID_cards, UK, chldren, database
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