I hope you weren't planning to take a break over the next few days... because the Home Secretary has some home-work for you.
Here's your Christmas reading -
- BBC article reflecting the announcement that the centralised NIR plan is to be scrapped in favour of a federation of three existing databases;
- the newly-published Strategic Action Plan for the National Identity Scheme.
This comes immediately following yesterday's announcement that patients will now be granted the opportunity to opt out of having their health records tranferred (with or without their consent) to a centralised National Health Service database.
The phrase 'U-turn' is over-used in political commenting, but I would be greatly encouraged if these 'course adjustments' turn out to represent a fundamental change in the government's policy on citizen control and consent where identity data is concerned.
Well, I'm entitled to a Christmas wish, aren't I?
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