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This extraordinarily detailed account of a single day in Angela’s life was pieced together by The Mail on Sunday from information stored in a bewildering mosaic of computer databases, both state and commercially run.
We obtained the information quite legally – by asking Angela to send written requests under the Data Protection Act to get hold of copies of the information held on her.
The data included her holiday details, a bunion operation she underwent in 2009 and even the fish pie, broccoli and bread-and-butter pudding she ate afterwards.
But alarmingly, there are no real controls on who holds this information or who can access it.
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What’s not in doubt is that the range of information held on databases is vast: the location of your mobile phone, the movement of your car, telephone calls, emails, internet use, purchases, bank and savings accounts, travel details, health appointments, criminal records, innocent involvement in police inquiries and a host of other personal details.
Added together, they can be used to piece together almost every detail of every British citizen’s life. Indeed, they are so pervasive that the Office for National Statistics is considering plundering them to replace the National Census.
Worryingly, a report commissioned by the Information Commissioner last year warned that Britain was already a surveillance state. Full story...
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This extraordinarily detailed account of a single day in Angela’s life was pieced together by The Mail on Sunday from information stored in a bewildering mosaic of computer databases, both state and commercially run.
We obtained the information quite legally – by asking Angela to send written requests under the Data Protection Act to get hold of copies of the information held on her.
The data included her holiday details, a bunion operation she underwent in 2009 and even the fish pie, broccoli and bread-and-butter pudding she ate afterwards.
But alarmingly, there are no real controls on who holds this information or who can access it.
(...)
What’s not in doubt is that the range of information held on databases is vast: the location of your mobile phone, the movement of your car, telephone calls, emails, internet use, purchases, bank and savings accounts, travel details, health appointments, criminal records, innocent involvement in police inquiries and a host of other personal details.
Added together, they can be used to piece together almost every detail of every British citizen’s life. Indeed, they are so pervasive that the Office for National Statistics is considering plundering them to replace the National Census.
Worryingly, a report commissioned by the Information Commissioner last year warned that Britain was already a surveillance state. Full story...
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