"NY" wrote in message
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"Andrew" wrote in message
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On 13/02/2020 00:19, wrote:


Andrew wrote:
If the government wants to know where all the people are,
they can always demand all the records from the phone companies
and supermarkets.

Phone directories do not include children, ages, occupations, or people
other
than the primary subscriber in the household.


Almost all that information is available from other sources.
The NHS records all birth and vaccination records. Local
authorities know where all the kids live, who their parents
and or guardians are.

HMRC have employment, company and VAT data. Lots of it.
The police have their PNC at Hendon.
The Security sources in NI used to have details of every house
including even things like, colour of sofa and curtains. All useful
stuff for interrogating suspects.

Everything that government statisticians and planners need to
know can be now be collated simply by doing a huge data trawl
on the existing government and 'private' databases. 100 years
ago this rich source of data didn't exist.

One big problem with using lots of different databases like this is
matching the entries that relate to the same person.

Our tax dept seems to so a reasonable job of
matching to catch out some of the tax cheats.
Corse its never clear how many they never catch.

That's why it would be so much better if everything required one common ID
(NI number) which would show that John Smith on the utility company
database was the same as John Smith in the DVLA database and the same as
John Smith who was born on date at location with mother's maiden name
of name and the same as John Smith who works for company and earns
salary.

The USA tried that with their social security number
but it turns out that the illegals dont have any real
difficulty getting one to use when they need one.

Bit harder with passports, but still possible.