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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Time to dump ID Cards says AM
January 10, 2008 12:00 AM
The Welsh Liberal Democrat Social Justice Spokesperson, Peter Black, has renewed his call for Labour to dump their ID Cards proposal in the light of new research carried out by his party.
Liberal Democrats have revealed that a record 37 million items of personal data went missing last year. Most of the data was lost by government officials but councils, NHS trusts, banks, insurance companies and chain stores also mislaid or published personal information about staff or members of the public as well.
The details lost included those of names, addresses, passports, bank and mortgage accounts, credit cards, hospital records, dates of birth, national insurance numbers, driving licences and telephone numbers.
"So far, Labour has managed to lose the personal details of 25m child benefit claimants and 3m learner drivers," said Mr. Black. "On top of that, they lost the names, dates of birth and national insurance numbers of 45,000 people claiming benefits in West Yorkshire last month."
"2007 was the worst ever year for personal privacy. This shocking record of data loss means we need a total rethink on data protection enforcement and an immediate end to the Identity Cards plan. Labour's ID card project is now in freefall, because faith in the Government's ability to handle personal data has hit crisis point.
"No democratic government can expect an unwilling public to accept having their personal data harvested and stored in the world's largest database when they are not confident that the government can be trusted to keep our personal details safe. It is time to dump ID Cards."
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