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CONTACTPOINT AND eCAF -- The Risks
This film is the third in a series of three looking at UK government plans for two national children's databases: Contactpoint and eCAF.

We recommend that you watch 'Contactpoint' and 'eCAF' first.

Contactpoint, sometimes called the 'Children's Index', 'Information Sharing Index' or 'Children's Database', will be a central identity register of every under-18 in England together with details of all of the services that they use. Its cousin, the eCAF database will contain in-depth personal assessments of children and young people using any service other than basic education and health care -- that's around 50% of under-18s.

Together with information security experts, child protection specialists and children's rights advocates, ARCH has spent the last 4 years trying to get the government to understand that large, centralised databases of children's private information are a dangerous and misguided idea. These films explain why.

The cast list includes Professor Ross Anderson, Dr Ian Brown, Dr Liz Davies, Shami Chakrabarti and Terri Dowty. We are very grateful to Kate Munro for all the work she put into making the films, and to Glyn Wintle of the Open Rights Group for converting them into the right format.

For more information about Contactpoint, eCAF and other children's databases see: http://www.arch-ed.org/issues/databases/databases.htm

In 2006 the Foundation for Information Policy Research produced a full report for the Information Commissioner, 'Children's Databases: Safety and Privacy'. This can be downloaded from: http://www.fipr.org/press/061122kids.html

If you are a practitioner with concerns about eCAF, you can contact us at: http://www.ecafalert.org.uk/

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[chilling2008]

SHRAPNEL!! says it all

manarchic has written a great reply to your 'daily mail' type comments

..shemi is so clever and i respect her

PLEASE DONT FORGET...IF EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU IS ON A DATABASE THEN ALL IT TAKES IS THE GOVERNMENT TO LOOSE A COUPLE OF CD'S AND WE ARE ALL FUUUKKKD

id cards = NO

[MaNarchicDRAKE]

Freedom and control of your own life will ruin your life? I suggest you re evaluate your arguement. I personally believe its very scary when we have talk of forcing people to hand over their genetic info, iris scan, fingerprints to be put on a database when they are totally innocent. I think its very scary when police when giving talks in school are fingerprinting children and putting them on a national database. This is all real, read about it and ask yourself if your argument is genuine

[UKDirtySecret]

youtube

'child stealing by the state' Brian Gerrish common purpose

find out the truth behind liberty and whats really happening to children in the UK

[organisten]

Let's just build more prisons, still better let's build concentration camps, and put *everybody* in the country in them! Then we can leave the country itself to the criminals... :P (irony)

[karuspery]

Why are British kids turning to crime?Labours misguided social engineering?

[HeadlightMorningGlow]

Yeah, let's just treat all kids as criminals. That's the way forward...

TIT.

[shrapnel1040]

whats wrong with fingerprinting kids, if later in life they commit a crime then it will be easier to catch them, if u do not do anything wrong whats the worry.

[shrapnel1040]

liberty will ruin this country if they had their way.That woman is a pain in the arse, 42 day detention good idea, mosquito device even better, deport all terrorists and anyone who supports or sympathises with them,life means life,minimal rights in prison,not a holiday camp atmosphere, if immigrants who are not succesful say they will be persecuted if returned to their country, ask why, have some brought it on themselves,we cant have everyone who feels like coming here use that excuse.

[HermzTairrie]

Excellent series of videos. With the recent careless loss of data from some of the prominent agencies, it seems even more like madness and folly to be spending time and money eroding the rights and freedom of our children.

[RowanFortuneWood]

This is an excellent series of documentary videos, kudos.