Reply to post: Even if I did trust the Government..

First it was hashtags – now Amber Rudd gives us Brits knowledge on national ID cards

Rodderstoo

Even if I did trust the Government..

Let us assume for a moment that I do trust the government’s motives and intentions. Let us similarly set aside the fact that a future government may be less trustworthy. The past (indeed, current) performance in the creation of large IT projects at a government departmental level (e.g. universal credit) suggests that they could never complete a central government project which would be the largest ever attempted in this country.

So, the best that they would achieve would be a cobbled-together system, that would aggregate multiple databases and datasets – all containing inaccuracies. Would you trust a system, which could decide your entitlement to a pension or to healthcare or even citizenship when the data has been input by a (many?) badly paid, poorly trained and un-motivated civil servant?

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