Opinion: To the point - When trust is off the record

It's curious how the Government is going through a phase of admitting to losing our personal information while trying to convince us that we need to spend millions on sundry national databases. Let's consider the proposed health service fantasy along these lines. For a start, it is stupid to do away with paper records, as all would be lost without electricity - not something to be taken for granted. Electronic records are a good idea insofar as they can be easily stored and transferred to another specialist; but a central...