Friday, November 30, 2007

contact point questions

questions to those who aren't signing the petition:

Do you think your children have the same right to privacy as you do? (I am assuming that most of you are as furious as me at the State bureaucracy posting your bank details to gawd knows where)

Are you anxious about the potential for violent ex's to trace their ex-families through such a database? (I am assuming that security will not be fail safe. There are simply too many people who will have access to the database for it to be secure)

If this database was applied to adults (full name, DoB, address, work place, previous employment, salary, any contact with any state agencies, including health care, counselling, maybe arrests (whether or not charges were brought), social services), would you feel comfortable?

You may be happy with your 6 year old being monitored in this way. How do you think your 18-year old is going to feel? Any differently from a 19-year old who is supposedly beyond the age to be included? And yet, do you think the government will simply delete them from the database when they reach 19? How would you feel about being on such a government database as an adult?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi
just returnignt he favour, keep up the good work ont eh buses :)

Cod

Anonymous said...

They are not sending me the confirmation email.

emma said...

Didn't you already sign it? I thought I saw your name as I glanced down the list (agh! Maybe I'm your new stalker!!!)

Anonymous said...

Oops. So I did.