The Times Education Supplement is wrongly named. It should in fact be called The Times School Supplement. The people who work there believe that education can only happen in a school. Of course, they are wrong, but their whole economic and ideological ecosystem revolves around children being in schools, and children being educated outside of […]
Over the years, BLOGDIAL has made many predictions detailing precisely what would happen if ContactPoint was rolled out. We gave detailed reasons, explanations and descriptions of how these bad things would happen, and now they are all coming to pass as we predicted. ContactPoint database suffers ‘serious’ security breaches during trial phase The controversial database […]
Finally, the Tories have been pinned down and have made the correct announcement: Tory plans to cut ‘surveillance’ The Conservatives have set out plans to reverse what they describe as “the rise of the surveillance state”. They have pledged to scrap two new databases – the ID card register and ContactPoint – and strengthen powers […]
This piece was forwarded to BLOGDIAL by a lurker. Its contents are simply shocking: I raised the alarm about family 15 years ago. I still want answers Eileen Fairweather Every time I have seen Lord Laming, the Government's favourite child protection “expert”, wheeled out since Baby Peter's death I have gritted my teeth. Never once […]
ContactPoint, the pure evil paedophile directory invented by the monsters of New Labour and developed by Capgemini, has ‘gone live in a local authority pilot’. The reprehensible and vile BBC News has a nauseating article, that has an inappropriate picture, and which trots out all the lies HMG want you to swallow unchallenged. Of course, […]
Up to a million public sector workers could be allowed to access a Government database containing sensitive information on every child in England and Wales, it has emerged. Critics say the figure is three times higher than ministers told Parliament, and raises further privacy concerns about the controversial ContactPoint system. The database will contain the […]
We expected this to happen: 1.2.3 Section 436A requires all local authorities to make arrangements to enable them to establish (so far as it is possible to do so) the identities of children residing in their area who are not receiving a suitable education. In relation to children, by ‘suitable education’ we mean efficient full-time […]
The Telegraph has an astonishing piece on ContactPoint: firms who have already demonstrated their incompetence are now in charge of ContactPoint: Prisoner data loss firm allowed to work on database of every child in England The private firm which lost the details of the entire prison population is being allowed to continue working on the […]
The white heat of public outrage is crisping this sham: The launch of the Government’s flagship database of every child living in England has been delayed just days after The Daily Telegraph exposed serious concerns about its purpose. ContactPoint will include the names, ages and addresses of all 11 million under-18s in the country, as […]
A RUTHLESS rapist found victims by getting a job as a care worker and trawling a council’s database for vulnerable young girls. Simeon Kellman, 43, used computer records to identify teenagers who had just come out of the foster care system. Then he forced his way into their homes and attacked them. Kellman has just […]
By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor Last Updated: 2:04am GMT 26/01/2008 The security of the online computer system used by more than three hundred thousand people to view the private details of children is in doubt after HM Government admitted it was not secure enough to be used by MPs, celebrities and the Royal Family. […]
But it is clear that no one in or out of government knows what the word ‘encryption’ means: Child database plan under attack following missing discs debacle By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor Independent Published: 26 November 2007 A review of security has been ordered over Government plans to put the personal details of 11 […]
Thanks to Dare to know: The ContactPoint regulations slipped through the House of Lords on Wednesday 18th, despite resistance from a number of sources, including ARCH. Hansard has the full story. Look at some of the evidence supplied to the House of Lords. Firstly, from Carpgemini the contractor: * Up to 330,000 registered users. * […]
Capgemini (Euronext: CAP) is a major French company, one of the world’s largest information technology, consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with a staff of 75,000 operating in 30 countries. It is headquartered in Paris (Rue de Tilsitt) and was founded in 1967 by Serge Kampf, the current chairman. CEO Paul Hermelin has led the […]
Phishers go after two-factor authentication systems By Eric Bangeman| Published: July 11, 2006 – 01:49PM CT One of the problems with passwords is that they can be compromised relatively easily. While brute-force cracks are possible, it is much easier to convince users to willingly part with their passwords using social engineering. That’s how phishers operate, […]
Whitehall officials strongly defend the security of the large centralised database that is being built as part of the Care Records Service of the National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. NHS Connecting for Health, which runs a major part of the NPfIT, points out that nobody can access it without leaving a trace in the audit […]
ContactPoint access, according to the Draft Contact Point Guidance – Version 1 (65 pages – PDF 388kb), is going to be granted to authorized users by ‘secure token’, username and password. They define it as: Security token – an item or device which provides one of the elements of information required for authentication. Examples include […]