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UK: Has the coalition government adopted the database state?

01 August 2010

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Has the coalition government adopted the database state? (link)

"Up to now NO2ID has had reason to be pleased with the new government. It may not have moved as certainly or as far as we would like on mass surveillance projects, but it has shown willing, quickly cutting back the ID scheme and cancelling ContactPoint. But this week’s pre-announcement of the idea of using credit-reference agencies to detect benefit fraud is a sign that the ideas of “Transformational Government” have not vanished from Whitehall alongside the terminology."

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