Mother’s fury as her private chat is shared under hated Named Person scheme

Published in the Scottish Sunday Express, 4 September 2016. Mother’s fury as her private chat is shared under hated Named Person scheme The author is grateful to the Allan family, who placed their trust in her to report their distressing experience. Read More …

Check what’s on your record with a subject access request

Re-blogged from Leahurst66 After last week’s landmark Supreme Court ruling (which was covered in this post), families across Scotland began to realise that their personal data may well have been collected and shared without their knowledge or consent in line with current advice from the Scottish Government Read More …

‘Raging Bull’ Swinney is still grabbing our personal data

Published in the Scottish Review, 6 July 2016. John Swinney is not for turning. Having been blinded by big data and so-called prevention science, he now describes organisations and people as ‘impediments’ to be overcome in the Scottish Government’s data-driven Read More …

Take two girls, who do not consent to named person intrusion

An edited excerpt from this article was published in the Sunday Times Scotland on 29 May 2016: ‘I wouldn’t talk to a stranger’. Faith is home educated and a member of our forum. Faith and the First Minister As a self-proclaimed Read More …