* Posts by Pete Laird

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Prime Minister's health records breached in database attack

Pete Laird
Unhappy

@AC - 07:26

Unfortunately, previous comments are not just about Emergency Care Records, but the full scale, we're recording everything from coughs and colds to mental illnesses, database, not just which prescriptions are being used. The information on the database that was stolen, was a small subset of that which could be stored on the full NHS database. Someone finds out that I am allergic to pennicillin, fine, I'm not that worried, someone finds out that I have a mental illness, that's a different matter. Emergency Care Records that can only be accessed, with my permission, or when I'm unconscious, I'd be prepared to do that. Full medical records, available to anyone I have cause to meet in the NHS? I don't think so. I'll be opting out too.

Oh, and how about people just take responsibility for their own emergency medical information. People with allergies tend to wear those rather funky bracelets with all the necessary in. Bet nobody would have been able to nick Gordo's info if he'd kept it in one of those.

UK to outlaw cartoons of child sexual abuse

Pete Laird
Unhappy

Where for art thou...

"At the consultation for the Extreme Porn law, one Police Force – Kent – argued also for the criminalisation of written material."

Does this mean that one of the most famous plays ever written, would be up for banning? I believe that Romeo was 14 and Juliet 13, as was the norm in Elizabethan times.

As for this bill, it's another example of legislation which criminalises the pass times of a large number of people, whilst doing absolutety nothing to actually stop abuse/exploitation of children, whilst pandering to Middle England/Daily Mail readers who have lost faith with the failed NuLab project.