'...and soon we could be carrying around our complete personal history on an identity card...'
Is it really necessay for these cards to contain our complete personal histories? It would be a concern if these were lost and got into the wrong hands. I would have thought previous convictions would be more useful to those checking...
Manjeet
Subject Librarian
Birmingham College of Food & Tourism
Summer Row
Birmingham
B3 1JB
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Armstrong [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 18 May 2004 18:53
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Subject: ID Cards, the National Identity Register and Data Protection
My Ex Cathedra in the third eLucidate - now available to members on the
UKOLUG Web site (www.ukolug.org.uk) - deals with this important issue.
What rights do we, as citizens, have over what information the
government has stored (or may store) about us? The amount of information
stored, and shared between departments, is set to grow ... and soon we
could be carrying around our complete personal history on an identity
card. How should this information be managed?
CILIP agree that this is an important issue that should be addressed by
the profession.
I should welcome any comments from members.
Chris Armstrong
UKOLUG Vice Chair
UK eInformation Group
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