While penning an update for Public Sector Forums on the 'Effective Partnership Data Management' project I blogged about recently, I was alerted to the fact that a government review of information sharing legislation around benefits data is currently underway.
Given the public kerfuffle and subsequent climb-down earlier this year over the Coroners Bill, I hunted high [...]
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Public Sector Data Sharing - More Developments
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:data sharing·government·privacy·transformational government
Data Sharing: A Debate Not to be Missed
September 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Post-eGov
I'm hugely excited by this. Sir David Varney, Gordon Brown's personal advisor on Transformational Government and architect of the Government's approach to data sharing, personalised public services and transformation in general is to face his critics in a public debate next month.
In a rare public appearance, Sir David - a man with a whole agenda [...]
Tags:data sharing·government·privacy·psf·sir bonar·transformational government·varney
The most intrusive Government database ever?
August 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Post-eGov
Very quietly last week, the Government published this report. It's worth reading because it sets out plans to build what is effectively the ultimate 'Big Brother' database.
The project, being led by the Department for Communities and Local Government, is called EPDM, short for 'Effective Partnership Data Management'.
Though sounding fairly innocuous, EPDM has been described by [...]
Tags:data security·data sharing·databases·privacy·transformational government
