Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
Think the free offer was exactly the problem. All the data would belong to the company to use as they saw fit. Ask any UK company involved with this type of technology, I imagine they would be bound to say that they could provide a custom service that the safeguards on data control could be delivered. It didn't work. I think the civil liberty issue is very important and I am disappointed that a British built system did not work. I don't think it was fraudulent but perhaps closer scrutiny of the company commissioned to do the work would show why the project failed. Did Scotland not choose to use a different approach?
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.