I suspect that the problem is not tighter IT security, but appropriate IT security levels that still allow people to do their jobs. I'm sure that most people who work in large organisations have come across incidences where IT Security is actually too tight and restrictive - this then forces people to find "alternative" methods of carrying out their job (eg sharing user-id's and passwords because a colleague has higher level access to a system), rather than going down the formal route with all the bureaucracy and obstructive attitude's that seem to stem from IT Security Departments

When England stops getting all the pork, Scotland won't need / deserve / want the little rebate we get.

... and disband ALL QUANGOs

... and give up on Olympic White Elephant 2012

... and stop turning us FURTHER into a police state

... and stop giving all the cash to England.

;-) Who'd be a politician eh?

Actually I think you lot up there should be independent, then you can cut yourselves off from corrupt fascist police-state England. Mrs Taw and I are heading there in a few years once we retire, unless Gordo and chums force us to remain wage-slaves for the rest of our lives.

how ungrateful, us wanting to give up "ten years of sustained economic growth" and all that.

nah, you Scots are way better off than us now, apart from the Paris Hilton coverage of course.

"It will consider how and why private information is shared and used, if the Data Protection Act offers sufficient protectio"

Indeed, can I ask a question, maybe there are experts here who know these things. I just watched a program on your BBC1, in it the policemen were checking car number plates, and along with them were bailiffs seizing cars for unpaid fines.

It appeared there was a flow of information on the registration details from the police to the bailiffs and police were using their stop powers on behalf of the bailiffs. The bailiffs mixed themselves in with the police and did not declare they were not police officers, but also information was transferred.

Now in most countries bailiffs are civil status people, they are not policemen and not entitled to take a look at private information like that, and they don't possess stop powers.

Is that not the case in the UK?

It looked like they were impersonating policemen with the consent of the police.

I think putting a return address on everything you ship out would be a good start.