“So it seems unlikely that many will be lining up to congratulate Chancellor Alistair Darling today after it emerged that the Revenue has lost a staggering 25 million customer accounts.” The Register, 20th Nov 2007

Almost as bad as UK government authoritarianism is UK government incompetence The more centralised the data becomes, the greater chance of catastrophic failure. Previously we were protected by the hand written records being too hard to catalog. Giving this government technology is like giving a gun to a monkey.

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