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CHILDREN’S DATABASES Contactpoint – eCAF – ICS- National Pupil Database - Connexions For information on each of the children's databases, click here On June 11th ARCH and Dr Eileen Munro gave evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee Surveillance Inquiry. Read their evidence here’ and link to the final report at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldconst/18/8061107.htm To read the joint briefing on children's databases from ARCH, Liberty, Privacy International, No2ID, FIPR and ORG, click here You might like to read these articles by ARCH’s director: ‘Overlooking children: an experiment with consequences’ in the Identity in the Information Society Journal ‘Pixie-dust and Privacy: What's Happening to Children's Rights in England?’ in Children and Society (Athens log-in required)
Watch the ARCH films on YouTube: With Ross Anderson, Ian Brown, Shami Chakrabarti, Liz Davies and Terri Dowty Read the FIPR report for the Information Commissioner : ‘Children’s databases – safety and privacy’
Below you can find some of the media coverage of Contactpoint, eCAF and ICS: Contactpoint: ‘Prisoner data loss firm allowed to work on database of every child in England’ Telegraph 12.9.08 ‘Government kids database under fire, again’ The Register 3.9.08 ‘Why the delay in launching database?’ Guardian 2.9.08 'Safety fears over new register of all children' The Times 27.08.07
eCAF: Child database will ‘pry into family life’ The Times 06.04.08
Integrated Children’s System: ‘UK child database is 'not fit for purpose'’ The Register 9.4.08 ‘Integrated children’s system failed to prove itself’ e-Health Insider 11.4.08
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