Sir David Ormond on Data Mining

Our goverment try to reassure us that this is not a police state, that we have nothing to fear from the increasing amount of information about us being held on databases, yet Sir David Ormond is quoted as saying :-

A significant challenge supporting the National Security Strategy will be how the intelligence community can access the full range of data relating to individuals, their movements, activities and associations in a timely, accurate, proportionate and legal way,

....or Protint. This is personal information about individual that resides in databases, such as advance passenger information, airline bookings and other travel data, passport and biometric data, immigration, identity and border records, criminal records, and other governmental and private sector data, including financial and telephone and other communications records. Such information may be held in national records, covered by Data Protection legislation, but it might also be held offshore by other nations or by global companies, and may or may not be subject to international agreements. Access to such information, and in some cases the ability to apply data mining and pattern recognition software to databases, might well be the key to effective pre-emption in future terrorist cases.

Well that's OK then, if it's to pre-empt future terrorist cases then I've got nothing to worry about have I..............................


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http://www.sott.net/articles/show/177604-Spying-on-60-million-people-doesn-t-add-up