Quote Originally Posted by grantzer View Post
Everyone chose a different approach. The problem you are describing,where people worried about data abuse was pretty central to the argument for using the free system. It collected data in a way that was not centralised, retained a degree of anonymity,and not stored for any real length of time. The system Boris paid his mates for stores info for seven years I believe, and was to be stored without anonymity. The decision was a no brainer, give the contract to pals of the government. They did the same thing with PPE contracts, one company was given a contract for millions,despite having assets of around 15k.
I am surprised. I thought that the whole discussion was based on the exact opposite view. My apologies. I can see why the actual choice made looks silly. It is odd that all the local parliaments chose different systems.