HMRC!!!

I see that the government has apparently managed to lose the personal details of around 25 million people in the UK. Just to put that into perspective, that’s the personal details of around 40% of the population!

Then, just to rub salt into the wound they give you a help line to call that they actually get a cut of the proceeds from!

Unfortunately, many people have been telling the government for a very long time that putting everyone on massive databases is not necessarily a good thing to do. The more information you have in a single place, the more likely it is to be targeted by the criminal element in our society and the more likely it is that a mishap will have massive repercussions!

Unfortunately, our current leaders (and I use that term in its loosest possible sense) seem to believe that they know best and so refuse to listen to anyone who’s opinions differ from theirs!

Personally, I believe that your average 14 year old could probably tell you why big databases are a bad thing and anyone who has ever had to work with even a moderate sized database will know of the pitfalls and problems as should the government given the number of errors that regularly get reported in the press.

So why won’t the government listed? Well that is the million pound question I’m afraid…

And to think, they want to put all out medical records, personal details and identities on massive databases that will be accessed by millions of people daily. Am I the only one who can see where this will go?