Share What They Know?
Barely a daypasses without the revelation that someone, somewhere has lost reams of sensitivepersonaldata. It's a subject that causes public concern and political embarrassment. Yet, despite moves to limit who gets to share what, iPM has been looking at fresh concerns that information about us is being shared, more widely and without proper safeguards.
We are grateful to the spyblog from bringing this to our attention. It concerns a provsion within the Serious Crimes Act 2007 that allows our personal, financial and medical records to be shared with the privatesector in effort to fight fraud. For some it's a big step forward.
A Home Office spokesperson told iPM:
"Fraud costs the UK at least £13.9bn a year. It is in all our interests to prevent it. We believe that the data sharing provisions under the Serious Crime Act 2007 will help the public sector to ensure that taxpayer's money is not taken out of the system fraudulently without infringing the rights of the individual. All the requirements of the Data Protection Act will continue to apply".
Eddie has been speaking to Ben Summers from the Fraud Advisory Panel and
Simon McKay is a solicitor advocate based in Leeds and a former legal adviser to MI5.
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