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Capgemini wins government-backed kids database contract

Capgemini has won a £40m six-year contract to build and host a ContactPoint database containing information about UK children. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) handed Capgemini the contract earlier this week. Outsourcing firm Capgemni, which has its headquarters in Paris, had been laying the groundwork …

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One stop shopping for cracker (dark side hacker) pederasts

Concentration of data, even by well-intentioned governments, may pose unacceptable dangers in the advent of data breaches. Until such time as penalties for the occasional lost laptop, data storage media lost in transit, or similar misadventure are commensurate with the potential damage to a minor, we can only expect the certainty of that loss, and the damage it will cause.

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