No time at present to look into the astrology of this, but it's crucially important that this information is widely circulated so posting this now rather than waiting until more time is available:-
"...the [UK's] Ministry of Justice has launched an extraordinary coup. It wants to convert the Data Protection Act into its exact opposite, into a means for any government department to obtain and use any information however it likes.
Hidden in the new Coroners and Justice Bill is one clause (cl.152) amending the Data Protection Act. It would allow ministers to make 'Information Sharing Orders', that can alter any Act of Parliament and cancel all rules of confidentiality in order to use information obtained for one purpose to be used for another.
This single clause is as grave a threat to privacy as the entire ID Scheme. Combine it with the index to your life formed by the planned National Identity Register and everything recorded about you anywhere could be accessible to any official body.
That is what we meant by "the database state". It is now a threat not a theory."
Quoted from the home page of the no2id website:
And also:
The Coroners and Justice Bill [Ministry of Justice] — received its First Reading in the Commons on 16th January 2009. For more detail on the massively dangerous information sharing clauses within this Bill, see below. Make no mistake, this is the Bill to build the database state.
To follow the progress of the Bill, and to read it and related documents, visit: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2008-09/coronersandjustice.html
Quoted from this page of the no2id website:
http://www.no2id.net/datasharing