Australian Government claims that an Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) would reduce avoidable deaths in the healthcare system has been dismissed by privacy advocates, who say poor records management was also a problem in eHealth.

The whole National ID Card scheme in the UK has been surrounded by controversy since the get go. Now, as the Government announces the roll out schedule, it admits it is missing one vital component.

As the UK Government continues to prove itself incapable of protecting citizen data, so critics of the proposed National ID Card scheme continue to argue such a Big Brother database will always be insecure. Now British Prime Minister Gordon Brown would seem to have finally admitted as much.