[privacy] UK: Child Database Attacked Over Celebrity Exclusions

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Guardian (UK).

[snip]

Government plans to exclude details of celebrities' children from a new
national child database were today seized on as evidence that the
system may pose a safety risk to those it is supposed to protect.

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) today confirmed that the
telephone numbers and addresses of children with famous parents would
not be added to the £224m child index.

[snip]

More:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,,1862231,00.html

- ferg


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