Support Digital Rights

[drplokta]

There's a new pledge on PledgeBank for people to sign up to pay £5 per month to set up a UK digital rights organisation. If they get 1,000 pledges, then it will happen. 31 so far, including me, but it was only created yesterday.

Go here if you want to sign up. And spread the word.

Comments

Re: Addendum

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Because that mistake pollutes all connected information. If the NHS, say, has my wrong name, that's not going to affect my tax records. If its all joined up, it does.

Re: Addendum

[andrewducker]

It'll also be immediately obvious, because all of them will be trying to look in the wrong place.

At work we used to have 6 different address systems, built over a period of several years. We had endless problems with inaccuracies and mismatches before we pulled them all together. Now if there's a problem it turns up quickly and gets sorted in one place. It's saved vast amounts of time and the number of customer complaints has dropped significantly.

Re: Addendum

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

That's true of information such as addresses which are frequently used. Its less true of rarely used information which might still have serious consequencies. This is especially the case if you're not allowed to check all of your own information, which I think is likely the case with the ID card database.

Also, if you have several independent databases, its much easier to cross check if something is wrong. Its like a weak hulled boat with lots of watertight compartments compared to a strong hulled boat with no internal security. It might be more difficult to hole, but one that happens you lose the whole thing.