The Government is making a database of primary schoolchildren.
The data [which will be shared with the department of Welfare and the HSE] will include medical and psychological assessments,religious and racial characteristics.
What could possibly go wrong?
Solicitor Simon McGarr writes:
This database, if leaked or misused, would compromise the identity security of every young person in the entire country. It would provide a treasure trove for blackmailers or identity thieves. It’s precisely because this sort of data is so red-hot radioactive that the Census data- the only collection comparable to this proposed datagrab- is given special legislative protections in the Statistics Act 1993.
Regrettably, it seems the Department of Education has not learned anything from the recent past.
Unanswered legal problems with the Government’s new database of children (Simon McGarr)
