Civil rights and personal information.

With the increasing use of IT in businesses and government, databases have been used as an easy means to storing your name and information about you, it's almost certain that you're on a database of some sort, most likely more than one, probably many. These databases could include:

1. Criminal databases - You normally get put onto a criminal database for committing even petty crimes, for example stealing will get you on this database. They hold information such as fingerprints, DNA and your location, these are kept on the database throughout your whole life as if you were to commit another crime, it would make the investigation a lot easier.
2. National Insurance - Once you are given a national insurance number, you will automatically be put onto a database, this will have information about your current work, as well as work history.
3. Driver's Licence - Your Driver's Licence holds key details of your whole life. Your age, name, house number and a picture of you as it's a legitimate form of identification.
4. Passport - This doesn't hold as much information about you as much as others, it states your age and has a picture of you to prove identification.
5.Social Networking sites - When you sign up to a social networking site, such as Facebook, all the information you enter is stored on their database, so the information they hold is decided by what you tell them. There has been a lot of controversy over this is many sites hold information about you even if you delete your account.
6. Hospital - The hospital will have a database which would include your birth date, and also your medical history, this way they know how to act if there's an emergency.

The reason we are now on so many databases is due to the fact that we now rely massively on computers to organise information for them, this has led to people feeling that their civil rights have been violated as so much of their information can be easily found on the internet.