[LINK] Centralised IHI architecture ...

[Roger Clarke]

At 16:12 +1100 15/3/10, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>If you were concerned (and I would imagine there may be
>things that you would like to be kept private). I would
>suggest you should pay cash and refuse to be identified.

Let me check that I understand your proposition, Marghanita.

1.  everyone who ever has any kind of transaction they want to keep private

2.  in respect of every such sensitive transaction

3.  has to pay the whole amount, without refund

4.  and in many cases has to pay large and even very large sums

5.  for services that they've already paid for through the tax system

Otherwise the data will be linked into a virtual national database, 
that is accessible by 600,000 people, and that includes an entry in 
the hub-database that alone shows enough meta-data for people to draw 
inferences.

And note that this is all new, and not a feature of the current system.


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