No2ID: The census is an assault on every family’s privacy

Guy Herbert, general secretary of NO2ID, commented on the census launch:

“This census is an astonishing bureaucratic assault on every family’s privacy. The stalker state wants to know who you are, what you do, and now who you do it with – information the government *does not need* to get statistics for planning. It is private information that the government cannot protect, and should not collect.

“If David Cameron and Nick Clegg want to show that they mean their fine words about rolling back the database state, then they will reverse the stealthy changes that have been made to census confidentiality. The government should commit itself to keep census information fully confidential, and to destroy all the raw data when it has been statistically tabulated, so that it cannot be used for other purposes.”