Tracking UK Citizens

UK - Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust reports:

Database State
www.statewatch.org...

Executive Summary
www.statewatch.org...

Excerpt:
"Of the 46 databases assessed in this report only six are given the green light. That is, only six are found to have a proper legal basis for any privacy intrusions and are proportionate and necessary in a democratic society. Nearly twice as many are almost certainly illegal under human rights or data protection law and should be scrapped or substantially redesigned, while the remaining 29 databases have significant problems and should be subject to an independent review. We hope this report will help to highlight the scale of the problem we are facing and inform the ongoing debate about the sort of society we want to live in and how new information systems can help us get there."

Ten ways to track the citizen
www.guardian.co.uk...

Surveillance
www.guardian.co.uk...

Call to scrap 'illegal databases'
news.bbc.co.uk...