Nick Clegg calls for an end to plans for ID cards

3.50.00pm GMT Sun 13th Jan 2008

Liberal Democrats list the losses of personal data that are known to have occurred last year. In 2007 alone 37 million people in the UK had some of their personal data lost - mainly by government agencies.

The law bringing in ID cards has already been passed by Labour and soon most citizens will have to pay for an identity card.

The expensive identity cards scheme is based on the government storing large amounts of information about each one of us on a central database.

But in 2007 the Government stumbled from one data loss crisis to another. The worst example came in November when the Government lost the personal details of all 25 million families with children. That has put the privacy of every family at risk.

The dangers of putting so much information about every citizen in the UK into one central database are clear to everyone except, it seems, the Government. Ministers are in denial when they argue that the information will be safe and people's privacy will not be undermined.

Follow the link below to see a full list of last year's data losses

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List of Lost Data