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Heather's argument against the scrapping of a project which put the civil liberties and human rights of so many children and the wider network of people in their lives at risk, is just naive. Data bases have never protected anyone sufficiently to outweigh their potential harms and the thought of GPs and others holding such powers over family life has all the overtones of Big Brother arrogance towards fellow citizens . There are already statutory processes in place which workers in camden should be following with regard to child protection regardless of who personally belongs to the network involved in such work or how they get along on a pe rsonal level.The Coalition presently in government is no overall protector of citizens rights to privacy it must be said eg the suggestion that yet more groups should trall through the banking and other information of benefit claimants without consent -but on this and the potential scrapping of the Summary Care and other mass ID bases - they have got it right.