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	<title>Comments on: Government minister: we may still introduce the big, mad database</title>
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		<title>By: David Heigham</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Heigham</dc:creator>
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		<description>Sorry, but it is worse than that.

The Government are thinking of creating a huge database. A database is something you create so that you can serch and/or manipulate the data it contains. If you do not know who is to search a database, for what information you propose to search nor through what types of algorithm you wish to search, and if you have not considered how you wish to manipulate that information, the chance of your database being &quot;fit for purpose&quot; is neglgible. Further, you will have assembled information in a form that other and potentially malicious users are likely to find ways of using for their own purposes.

That is to say, in addition to the points quoted by the campaign, the project is likely to endanger national security</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, but it is worse than that.</p>
<p>The Government are thinking of creating a huge database. A database is something you create so that you can serch and/or manipulate the data it contains. If you do not know who is to search a database, for what information you propose to search nor through what types of algorithm you wish to search, and if you have not considered how you wish to manipulate that information, the chance of your database being &#8220;fit for purpose&#8221; is neglgible. Further, you will have assembled information in a form that other and potentially malicious users are likely to find ways of using for their own purposes.</p>
<p>That is to say, in addition to the points quoted by the campaign, the project is likely to endanger national security</p>
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