One law for us...
Telegraph | News | Celebrity children will get database privacy
Children of celebrities will be given special safeguards in a new database that will store details of every child in England and Wales, it was disclosed yesterday.
Ministers said the contentious two-tier level of privacy will protect children of the rich and famous from intrusion.
Files are held by many bodies on the 11 million children in England and Wales, but the index will link this sensitive information in one database accessible to hundreds of thousands of officials.
Schools, doctors, the police and private-sector bodies will alert the system to such warning signals as low birth weight, poor exam results and a parent's depression or addiction. Two warning "flags" on a child's record may trigger an investigation.
Lord Adonis, the education minister, told the House of Lords: "Between 300,000 and 400,000 users will access the index....
So the Blairs and Beckhams will not have every detail and rumour available to hundreds of thousands of gawpers but you, me and the rest of us, we are just Proles to be herded and tagged at willl. Come the glorious day there will be a reason for the self appointed Patricians to be hiding.....