Have the home office used this inteptitude to argue for ID cards yet?
Carl
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>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:17:48 +0100
>Reply-To: Pounder Chris <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Pounder Chris <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [data-protection] News: 200 people have been wrongly accused by
>the Criminal Records Bureau of having criminal records
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>Nearly 200 people have been wrongly accused by the Criminal Records
>Bureau of having criminal records.
>The names of 193 people were mistakenly linked with convictions held on
>the police national computer (PNC), BBC Radio Five Live has learned.
>In some cases the names of those being vetted by the bureau were similar
>or identical to those of actual criminals.
>In others, the criminals had given someone else's personal details to
>the authorities to avoid a police record.
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>More details from:
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3630971.stm
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