>“Operationally, I’m asking them to do it now. In the medium term, by which I mean the next two years, we’re going to try and create a new data platform so you can press one button [and it] lets you search it all in one go.”
With this government’s record I’m just left wondering whether Philp has some mates with a data platform to sell.
> Chris Philp said he planned to integrate data from the police national database (PND), the Passport Office and other national databases to help police find a match with the “click of one button”.
They’re pitching this like a new idea, but it sounds a lot like the LEDS system that they announced years ago:
https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/uk-law-enforcement-data-service-leds-new-police-mega-database
> LEDS is a new platform, which will replace and combine the existing Police National Database (PND) and the Police National Computer (PNC). The vision of the Home Office is to provide police and others a super-database, with on-demand, at the point of need access, containing up-to-date and linked information about individuals’ lives.
> By combining datasets which are currently siloed, the information routinely provided by LEDS will be much broader than the current single database searches. The Home Office expects the first stage of LEDS to be operational by late 2020, and will continue to add further data sources through to 2023, and beyond.
Wear a mask? might look like you’re robbing the place tho, wait.
we should have another government in 2 years but we all know labour and tory sing off the same hymn sheet when it comes to this sort of thing
>Philp also called on the public to make citizen’s arrests if they catch shoplifters
Insane. So as well as taking a sledgehammer to our privacy, he wants the general public to put themselves in harms way and try to do the job of the police?
How about instead of going Orwell, they do the boring but tested approach of hiring more police? Replace some of the ones they cut. I guess doing it that way provides no way to kickback to some tory-linked corporation.
Not a fan of big brother, but wouldn’t it be better to start with some of the more important crimes….like rape, assault, and burglary?
Shoplifting seems pretty low down on the impact list. It costs 0.20% of revenue (figures are massively skewed as they use RRPs for value instead of cost). That’s a huge 20p per £100.
Do demographics among shoplifters skew that way? Are they likely to be the people that have passports? Passports cost a pretty penny to get in the first place, so if you’re poor as fuck, you probably don’t have one.
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>“Operationally, I’m asking them to do it now. In the medium term, by which I mean the next two years, we’re going to try and create a new data platform so you can press one button [and it] lets you search it all in one go.”
With this government’s record I’m just left wondering whether Philp has some mates with a data platform to sell.
> Chris Philp said he planned to integrate data from the police national database (PND), the Passport Office and other national databases to help police find a match with the “click of one button”.
They’re pitching this like a new idea, but it sounds a lot like the LEDS system that they announced years ago:
https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/uk-law-enforcement-data-service-leds-new-police-mega-database
> LEDS is a new platform, which will replace and combine the existing Police National Database (PND) and the Police National Computer (PNC). The vision of the Home Office is to provide police and others a super-database, with on-demand, at the point of need access, containing up-to-date and linked information about individuals’ lives.
> By combining datasets which are currently siloed, the information routinely provided by LEDS will be much broader than the current single database searches. The Home Office expects the first stage of LEDS to be operational by late 2020, and will continue to add further data sources through to 2023, and beyond.
Wear a mask? might look like you’re robbing the place tho, wait.
we should have another government in 2 years but we all know labour and tory sing off the same hymn sheet when it comes to this sort of thing
>Philp also called on the public to make citizen’s arrests if they catch shoplifters
Insane. So as well as taking a sledgehammer to our privacy, he wants the general public to put themselves in harms way and try to do the job of the police?
How about instead of going Orwell, they do the boring but tested approach of hiring more police? Replace some of the ones they cut. I guess doing it that way provides no way to kickback to some tory-linked corporation.
Not a fan of big brother, but wouldn’t it be better to start with some of the more important crimes….like rape, assault, and burglary?
Shoplifting seems pretty low down on the impact list. It costs 0.20% of revenue (figures are massively skewed as they use RRPs for value instead of cost). That’s a huge 20p per £100.
Do demographics among shoplifters skew that way? Are they likely to be the people that have passports? Passports cost a pretty penny to get in the first place, so if you’re poor as fuck, you probably don’t have one.