Firms bought secret personal data

A further reason to be wary about the proposed NIR which would be the teeth behind ID cards in this country. Firms bought secret personal data on staff - privacy chief | UK news | The Guardian: "Thomas believes that workers have been unfairly denied employment because they have had no chance of challenging any inaccurate information, some of which has been stored for decades." What happens when that kind of information is collected about everybody and is corrupted or unlawfully accessed? State-sponsored discrimination is what.