Data Sharing in Whitehall Must be Limited by Respect for Private Rights


Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:31


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‘Actually there is no lack of clarity about what the law permits. What there is, is a conflict between the inherent desire of bureaucracy to collect and use ever more information about citizens, and the fundamental rule of a free society – that officials cannot just make up powers to suit themselves. “The government are proposing to drive a coach and horses through the duty of confidentiality that the state owes to individuals in any case where a quite nebulous concept of public good decides to trump the private right,” as Dominic Grieve, now attorney general, put it when he answered Straw.’

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