Development of a Scottish Population Register/ID Card Scheme is subject to ICO criticism
In January, I published a blog on how the Scottish Government were consulting on plans to transform the current NHS Central Register (“NHSCR”) into a population register without much thought about the Data Protection Act (DPA). The ICO has just published a contribution to that consultation process that, when you strip away the diplomatic language, comes to a similar conclusion. What I did not know at the time of writing the blog was that there was a flourishing “Entitlement Card”




