I have just read the article with much disgust. It will be so easy for people to add and alter computer details. A "human trafficker's" heaven!! Just pay a sum and anything can be altered, which I believe already happens in UK. What is the ONS thinking of! I do not believe they can manage 99.5% security, and 0.5% of 250m is ?1.5m errors and details open to fraud! Legally done too. What hope for future genealogists and historians. Anne -----Original Message----- From: Peter Christian [mailto:peter@spub.co.uk] Sent: 23 June 2005 10:02 To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SoG] Population database will move to India In today's Guardian http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/story/0,12767,1512480,00.html Probably best not to read this if you're easily outraged by government departments not learning their lesson. peter

In message of 23 Jun, "Anne Hartley" <anne.hartley1@ntlworld.com> wrote: > I have just read the article with much disgust. > > It will be so easy for people to add and alter computer details. A "human > trafficker's" heaven!! > > Just pay a sum and anything can be altered, which I believe already happens > in UK. > > What is the ONS thinking of! I do not believe they can manage 99.5% > security, and 0.5% of 250m is ?1.5m errors and details open to fraud! > Legally done too. > > What hope for future genealogists and historians. And then what did that UK Agency, QuockItUp, do with the 1901 census? Though I will agree that they did their bit to Make Poverty History by subcontracting to India, after a notorious subcontractor here failed to deliver the goods. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim@powys.org              For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org