Raytheon and the Home Office are in talks as the department tries to stop the company suing for unfair breach of contract over its sacking from the e-borders programme last year. At the time, the e-borders agency said it had no confidence in the company. Immigration minister Damian Green said: "The government is determined to …

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Thursday 25th August 2011 12:18 GMT Loyal Commenter

Why the hell...

...was a project involving personal details of UK citizens handed over to a US company in the first place?

That is all.

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1. Thursday 25th August 2011 13:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  I guess the CIA
  
  go scouting in Cambridge.
  
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2. Thursday 25th August 2011 21:40 GMT John Smith 19
  
  @Loyal Commenter
  
  Why the hell...
  
  .was a project involving personal details of UK citizens handed over to a US company in the first place?
  
  Because it worked so well when Lockheed Martin handled the national census this time round.
  
  And the last time round as well.
  
  (HMG. "What's that you say? The PATRIOT act give UG govt departments unlimited to any data held by a US based company. What's "The PATRIOT" Act?")
  
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  1. Sunday 28th August 2011 21:38 GMT martin burns
    
    Census Data
    
    It's been handled by US companies a *lot* longer than that.
    
    CACI for example (who produce the *highly useful* ACORN geodemographic database[1]. Which significantly reduces the amount of junk mail you get for stuff you're never, ever going to be interested in)
    
    [1] Data analysed and available based on classifying postcodes - individuals aren't identifiable.
    
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    1. Tuesday 30th August 2011 08:20 GMT John Smith 19
      
      @martin burns
      
      "Data analysed and available based on classifying postcodes - individuals aren't identifiable."
      
      Quite true. But the information is *derived* from the post code data base. While it could be brought down to the individual it's not delivered by default.
      
      Unlike the UK census which *is* handed to a US company in detail (The UK census used to operate down to the *household*, now it's down to the individual).
      
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Thursday 25th August 2011 12:35 GMT Anonymous Coward

Why need a title?

The same with Northrop-Grumman and the National fingerprint Database!

They are running the IDENT1 system.

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Thursday 25th August 2011 21:11 GMT amanfromMars 1

Squeak up, please.

Does the Home Office not have anyone in charge with balls?

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1. Thursday 25th August 2011 22:56 GMT Nadjau
  
  Balls to that
  
  If they had balls they would not be working for the Home Office.
  
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2. Friday 26th August 2011 19:16 GMT Michael Dunn
  
  Squeak up, please.
  
  Or brains?
  
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Thursday 25th August 2011 22:45 GMT Anonymous Coward

and the arrest of 25 people accused of violent crimes.

Shouldn't that say "and the arrest of 25 people accused of __other__ violent crimes."

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Friday 26th August 2011 08:34 GMT Starkadder

But no terrorists

Which was the prime purpose of the system in the first place.

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Friday 26th August 2011 10:48 GMT ParsleyTheLion

Hopeless

From what I saw of this crowd if would be an outrage if they were awarded another penny of taxpayer's money. While there were some reasonably capable subcontractors, the clear impression was that no one in charge had the faintest idea how to design and deliver a project at this scale.

I remember asking a top design dude what he thought his job was, expecting him to refer to the establishment of common technical policy, processes and the like, and he replied that it was to "approve every change" being made by development teams (including subcontractors). Unbelievable.

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Friday 26th August 2011 19:11 GMT Anonymous Coward

Celebwatch

Never mind this arrest nonsense, how many celeb holidays did it report to the NoTW?

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