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Data security concerns surround government database

Government plans to create a communications database have received calls to be cancelled amid concerns over data security.

UK-based weblog Spy Blog has commented that plans to set up these databases should not go ahead after it has been proved time and again that the government is not capable of keeping sensitive personal information safe.

The implications of a data breach in these databases are that thousands of individuals could be left open to the possibility of ID theft.

A spokesperson for the organisation stated: "Whitehall departments and many large private sector companies all claim to work to the "highest standards" and that the data privacy and security breaches are treated "very seriously", but they keep happening again and again and again."

Meanwhile, according to an article recently printed in the Guardian, Sir David Omand, the former UK security and intelligence coordinator, commented that the use of modern data mining and processing procedures requires the government to examine the innocent, as well as those suspected of terrorism and other offences, to identify patterns of interest for further investigation.

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