5.22.2006

Difficult to imagine, isn't it?

A computer glitch.
Mix-up brands innocent citizens as criminals - Yahoo! News: "It said the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), which carries out checks on people who have applied for jobs working with children or vulnerable adults, had confused the innocent people with convicted criminals because they had similar or identical names."

(Not to mention it sounds like Florida.)
British government winds up labeling 1,500 innocent people criminals. But not to worry, it's for the children, say officials. (Sound familiar?) And the old people. And anyway it's only a 0.03 percent rate.

Which might not be much consolation to the 0.03 percent.

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