Big Brother is crap

More ID madness: the British Computer Society reckons huge amount of data held by government departments is just plain wrong:

Research by IT specialists found 4 per cent of the population - almost two million people - had discovered incorrect information stored under their name by Whitehall or local authorities.

The total climbs even higher when partial or incomplete information is included.

The British Computer Society said this left different departments holding conflicting pieces of information about a person.