Reply to: Politicians and celebrities to be protected from child database

[expat]

titbits

tidbits

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[dang65]

titbits

Tidbit is correct. Titbit is a variation.

[BrilloPad]

Don't worry so. The coming revolution will put a stop to this nonsense.

What revolution is this? The one where we just sit round and whine and bitch?

[SantaClaus]

Don't worry so. The coming revolution will put a stop to this nonsense.

What we need is an even bigger collapse of the economy to keep the government busy. Then they wont have time to do stupid things.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I have to confess that I have inadvertently against my will happened to notice a few tidbits from real life in the files. ...

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[TheFaQQer]

I have to confess that I have inadvertently against my will happened to notice a few tidbits from real life in the files.

It's amazing how your fingers can just slip to type that query, isn't it

Uncannily, when I'm testing the AP part of the system, I need to know that the supplier I choose has lots of invoices. Like agencies, for example.

Best of course is when you see your own invoices going through the system, that gives a nice warm glow.

Until you see how much the agent is making, having said "our margin is about 6%..."

[expat]

That is not normal to do that and I would doubt they would do that.

These type of databases always had audit trails switched on and someone would be checking them 24/7. Usually what happened was that people could be marked as sensitive and if anyone opened the records then lights would flash on people's PCs.

It was fairly common for someone on the DB team to have to go down to a disciplinary as a witness because folk were looking at stuff they were not meant to.

Of course they never switched the audit trails on with the test DBs, all and no for me.

I have to confess that I have inadvertently against my will happened to notice a few tidbits from real life in the files. Best of course is when you see your own invoices going through the system, that gives a nice warm glow. But I have also e.g. worked for a pharma company and looked up their files on my own GP. Wondered if I should tell her when the next reps visit was scheduled so that she could avoid it; or just how much in the way of freebies was on the table....

[minestrone]

That is not normal to do that and I would doubt they would do that.

These type of databases always had audit trails switched on and someone would be checking them 24/7. Usually what happened was that people could be marked as sensitive and if anyone opened the records then lights would flash on people's PCs.

It was fairly common for someone on the DB team to have to go down to a disciplinary as a witness because folk were looking at stuff they were not meant to.

Of course they never switched the audit trails on with the test DBs, all and no for me.

[threaded]

Don't worry so. The coming revolution will put a stop to this nonsense.

[Moscow Mule]

Hey look, this isn't such a big issue - you can only do single record lookups and you can't download more than one record at a time.

It'll be fine

[expat]

That's all 400,000 staff with access to the database?

They are not all government staff. For example, workers and volunteers with charities that work with children will also have access to this database. It will have children's names, addresses, ages, contact details, school and doctor names, etc, and parents will not be allowed to keep their children off it. Whew! Lots of scope for tracking kids there. Good thing there will not be a single dodgy character in the 400,000 with access, and the government will not lose the data.

[ratewhore]

No, stop, everything is OK:

OK, so the data is safe in the government's hands.

That's all 400,000 staff with access to the database?

[expat]

No, stop, everything is OK:

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin said all staff will undergo rigorous enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks before being given access to ContactPoint.

The directory will be protected from hackers through sophisticated passwords, PINs and user identities, she said.

OK, so the data is safe in the government's hands.

[ratewhore]

Still, the libdems will can it and the tories will reduce the scope...

linky

[TykeMerc]

Utter farce.