Confidentiality

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) gave out private and confidential information, including bank details, relating to 26,000 pensioners. (see The Telegraph's article at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/10/npens10.xml.)

In an age where we’re increasingly warned about identity fraud and the measures we need to take to make sure we’re not victims of it, it now seems that there is no need for crooks to sift through the mail to steal an identity. Instead, you just wait for the Government to send you a few thousand.

The fact that the government is planning on a centralised database to contain ALL of your personal details should be enough to worry anyone.