Database State

Outline
UK government systems for identity, health, criminal justice, social security
Data protection and human rights standards
Designing privacy-friendly e-government systems

Scale of DWP systems Fields Cases System 700 8m Income Support Computer system 9,800 92m Customer Information System 15,500 6.5m Pensions Transformation Programme 1,300 480,000 Customer Management System

Identity management
Central National Identity Register of all those over 16 living in UK longer than 3 months with biometrics, biographical data and audit trail
ContactPoint database of all 11m children in England and Wales with biographical data and links to services used
National Identity Registration Number can be used to link up other databases

National Programme for IT
Central Summary Care Records with biographical data, allergies and prescriptions
Regional Detailed Care Records
Central Secondary Uses Service for administration and research

Criminal justice
National DNA Database with 5.1m profiles
ONSET system attempts to identify potential young offenders
National Fraud Initiative collects much sensitive information but absolved from liability for any confidentiality breaches
National ANPR system keeps up to 18bn records pa for up to 5 years
Communications database proposed

DP and human rights standards
Interference with private life must be based on detailed, clear, precise, foreseeable law ( Copland v UK )
Systems must limit access to data to those who have a proportionate requirement for access ( I v Finland )
Bleeding-edge states have a particular duty to consider impact of databases upon privacy ( S & Marper v UK )
Only 5 of 46 databases reviewed met these standards

Privacy-friendly e-government
Privacy Impact Assessments are needed much earlier in policy cycle, and include ECHR compliance checks
Sensitive personal information should be kept on local systems and shared only with the subject ’ s consent or for a specific lawful purpose

Final thoughts
The UK is a model for how not to do e-government, as the ECtHR is recognising
It is dangerous to allow these large centralised databases to proceed in the hope they will later be ruled illegal
Governments need to build privacy into systems by design at a much earlier stage

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Database State

by Ian Brown on Apr 03, 2009

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