Erasing David

08/04/2010

Erasing David

You may already have heard of the film Erasing David - it has been featured on a number of liberty and privacy supporting websites; but we wanted to give it another push today because it goes to the heart of what is at stake on 6th May.

A feature documentary, Erasing David is the story of what happened when Filmmaker David Bond received a letter informing him that his daughter Ivy was among the 25 million children whose details were scandalously lost by HMRC in 2007.

David decided to find out just how much of our personal information is floating around in government and corporate databases by disappearing for a month and setting two of the world’s top private investigators the task of tracking him down, using only publicly available data.

The film is in cinemas on Thursday 29th April and will be broadcast on Channel 4 (More4) on Tuesday 4th May 2010, at 10pm.

To find out more and watch a short clip of the film head over to http://erasingdavid.com/

By Dylan Sharpe

8 Apr 2010 10:09:09

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