Department for Work and Pensions to introduce identity verification service

Details have emerged of a £2 million Department of Work and Pensions tender to find a company able to source biographical and other background information about online benefit claimants.

Crucially, the "chosen supplier will provide biographical data to supplement information already available to the department", indicating that such a supplier would not simply be linking up existing databases in the pursuit of so-called "joined up government".

The full piece can be found on the excellent Register website.

A Big Brother Watch co-conspiritor added: "Isn't it good to see that our freedom-loving government have thrown out those plans for keeping giant databases of information about us?"

Hat-tip: SC

Comments

[Nike Free Run]

Hoever the educational requirement or the perform encounter from the applicant will efficiently disqualify a lot of people beneath the age of 18.

[mbt online]

That was my thought,too.