Colleagues

 

According to the BBC today:

 

A giant database of people's personal details could be created at Whitehall under government plans which ministers say will help improve public services.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6260153.stm

 

Somebody on this forum once quoted Lord Browne Wilkinson in the case of Marcel v Metropolitan Police Commissioner:

 

““...If the information obtained by the police, the Inland Revenue, the social security offices, the health service and other agencies were to be gathered together in one file, the freedom of the individual would be gravely at risk.

…The dossier of private information is the badge of the totalitarian state.”

 

As my kids would say on a long journey…

 

“Are we there yet?”

 

Happy New Year

 

Ibrahim Hasan

 

Solicitor and Trainer

www.informationlaw.org.uk

www.actnow.org.uk

www.ibasolicitors.com

 

 

Tel : 07808 079264

 

 

 

 

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