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Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom: managing tensions between data protection and social policy. Part II
- Authors:
- BELLAMY Christine, PERRI 6, RAAB Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Public Administration, 83(2), 2005, pp.393-415.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article enquires whether risks to privacy are greater in some policy sectors than others. First it shows how the Labour Government's policy agenda is producing stronger imperatives towards data sharing than was the case under previous administrations in three fields of public policy and services, and then examines the safeguards introduced in these fields. The authors then compare the settlements emerging from differing practices within each of these policy sectors, before briefly assessing which, if any, principles of data protection seem to be most at risk and in which policy contexts. Four strategies for the governance of data sharing and privacy are recapitulated namely, seeking to make the two commitments consistent or even mutually reinforcing; mitigating the tensions with safeguards such as detailed guidelines; allowing privacy to take precedence over integration; and allowing data sharing to take precedence over privacy. Argue that the UK government has increasingly sought to pursue the second strategy and that the vertical dimension is, in practice, much more important in defining the settlement between data sharing and privacy than is the horizontal dimension. This strategy is, however, potentially unstable and may not be sustainable. The conclusion proposes a radical recasting of the way in which the idea of a 'balance' between privacy and data-sharing imperatives is conceived.
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom: managing tensions between data protection and social policy
- Authors:
- 6 Perri, RAAB Charles, BELLAMY Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Public Administration, 83(1), March 2005, pp.111-133.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In 2002, the government published a major policy paper on data sharing and privacy. By late 2003, its approach to the need for legislation had changed sharply. This article discusses analyses the horizontal dimension of the governance of data sharing and privacy. Part II (published in the next issue) examines the vertical dimension in three fields in which tensions between data sharing and privacy have come to the fore: community safety, social security and NHS health care. Four options for the governance of data sharing and privacy are analytically distinguished: (1) seeking to make the two commitments consistent or even mutually reinforcing; (2) mitigating the tensions with detailed guidelines for implementation; (3) allowing data sharing to take precedence over privacy; and (4) allowing privacy to take precedence over data sharing. The article argues that, despite its strong assertion of (1), the government has, in practice, increasingly sought to pursue option (2) and that, in consequence, the vertical dimension has become much more important in shaping the relationship than the horizontal dimension. The article argues, however, that option (2) is a potentially unstable