The government should scrap two key IT projects and recast them in a way that fits a truly digital Britain, says Microsoft's former national technology officer for the UK.Jerry Fishenden, who last week left Microsoft after 12 years, said the national ID cards scheme and the Interception Modernisation Programme, otherwise known as the government's Big Brother database, reflected an out-of-date understanding of what the digital world was truly about.
Fishenden said the privacy and security of personal data on the web was the crucial issue facing society as more and more information is stored in digital format.
Source: ComputerWeekly.com
